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Oracle Visual Builder: Applications That Outlive Their First Release · Module 9 · Fragments, components and reuse

The component library you already have

Lesson 91 of 176 · 3 min

What SHIPS WITH THE PRODUCT, and THE HABIT OF CHECKING BEFORE BUILDING SOMETHING THAT ALREADY EXISTS. The component library is large, and the commonest waste in this product is somebody spending two days building a control that was already in the palette. WHAT SHIPS IS MOST OF WHAT A BUSINESS APPLICATION NEEDS. Tables with sorting and paging, forms, date pickers, selects that load their own options, dialogs, file upload, charts, a file of layout containers. Not a starter set — a mature library covering the things enterprise screens are made of. AND EACH ONE CARRIES WORK YOU WOULD OTHERWISE HAVE TO DO YOURSELF. Keyboard operation, screen reader behaviour, right-to-left mirroring, theming, and the states Module 7 Lesson 8 listed. A hand-built equivalent has none of that, and acquiring it is not an afternoon — which is the real cost of building your own, and it is invisible on the first

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In this module: Module 9 · Fragments, components and reuse

  1. 1The component library you already have
  2. 2Fragments: a piece of page you reuse
  3. 3When to make one
  4. 4Custom components
  5. 5Sharing across applications
  6. 6Theming and staying consistent
  7. 7What breaks: two reuse failures
  8. 8Lab briefing · Extract a fragment properly