Custom (user-defined) GUI components in ADF
JDev: 12.2.1.3.0 Source: 1) CustomComponent , 2) CustomComponentApp A very less-used, yet powerful, feature of Oracle ADF is its ability to allow users to create custom (declarative) UI components. The steps to create such a re-usable component is a bit elaborate and clumsy, but the fruit of the hard-work is quite sweet! This is going to be quite a large blog. So I will break this into 2 sections. However, just to get your attention, this is what we intend to achieve in the end: This is what our jspx code will be Section 1 - Define the component Create an ADF application, with the default ViewController and Model projects. I have renamed ViewController to DeclarativeComponent in my case, and have removed the Model project. An alternate starting point would be to create an empty Java application and add a project, but I chose this path so as to ensure that all the required libraries get included automatically and save me the hard work! Once the appli...