Persisting to MDS Store using Programmatic API's in ADF

In last some of the posts regarding MDS, we saw how to achieve Personalizations and Seeded Customizations in Enterprise applications using Oracle ADF. There was explanation how to leverage Oracle ADF MDS framework for this purpose. Most of the personalization and customization is provided OOTB by the framework and just requires correct configurations and steps to achieve. These are declarative user customizations which allow to implicit save component changes done by the user.

But there are scenarios where some custom persistence is required to be saved to MDS Store. This means, that state of the components needs to be changes based on certain conditions. This explicit saving of state of components can be done using Java API provided by the framework.

Lets take an example for this post:
This example uses a ShowDetailFrame which is webcenter component. There is a button show/hide SDF which hides and shows the below SDF. Now this hide and show of SDF is being persisted in MDS Store. For now we will take File system based MDS Store. So for a particular user, when user performs show or hide of SDF, its state is stored in MDS and is presented to the user when it Logins next time into the application.

Session at Sangam 2014 - AIOUG

I am proud to announce that I will be Presenting a Session at Sangam 2014 this year in Bangalore India.

Sangam is a yearly Oracle User Group Conference Hosted by All India Oracle User Group (AIOUG) and is the largest Independent Oracle event in India.


Below are the details of my Session :

Session           : 201421

Session Title   : Customizations of Enterprise Applications using Meta Data Services in Oracle ADF

Duration          : 50 Minutes

Track               : Development Track

The Session will be about Customizations and Personalizations of Applications using powerful XML based MDS framework provided by Oracle ADF. It will consist of introduction to Meta Data Services (MDS) and how MDS framework is enabled in ADF applications using Jdeveloper. There will be an explanation of how MDS works behind the scenes and how requests for Customizations are being persisted in MDS Store. Finally there will be a Demo of Personalization using Jdeveloper 12c.

I am excited to talk about this topic @ Sangam14.

See you there !!

Personalization using MDS in Oracle ADF

Personalization for the users is the most wanted features in Enterprise applications nowadays. This gives user good experience and makes him to decide what and how he needs to see things in Enterprise Applications .

This post we will see how can we do User level Personalizations in Oracle ADF Applications and steps to configure it.

Example uses Jdev 11.1.1.7. Lets get started !


Created a simple ADF Application. Created BC from HR schema consist of EmployeesEO/VO and DepartmentsEO/VO and AppModule.

Implemented ADF Security. This is required since we are doing personalization for a particular user