Develop a New Business Application with
Oracle Cloud Visual Builder
Choosing the right user interface technology is very
important. When as a technology professional, I have built different enterprise
applications using different development tools, from Oracle Forms, Java based Application
Development Framework (ADF), Oracle Application Express, to Grails and Groovy. In this article, I will evaluate a simple and
powerful cloud-based platform for a customer who wants to build a high-performance
Dealer Portal.
Develop, Test, Deploy and Run on the Cloud
I
started playing with Oracle cloud Visual Builder (https://www.oracle.com/application-development/cloud-services/visual-builder/).
A cloud instance was provisioned in minutes making my first impression really
good. It was easy to use and had the capacity to build a modern User Interface.
VBCS provides capabilities to build mobile
and web applications using rest services and business objects. In addition to
the broad list of standard UI components and processes, VBCS provides the
ability to create additional components, processes and templates.
Easy Connect with Rest End Points
For evaluation best use case I was able to think was Lending
Club. In minutes I was able to add the Lending Club investor rest web services
to VBCS.
VBCS supports all different security
authentication mechanisms to connect to Rest end points.
The Next step was to build a rich User Interface based on the
rest JSON objects. VBCS provided a list of components, navigation options,
flows and visual charts to effortlessly build the UI.
Visual with Code Access
With
VBCS, one develops an application using the basic technology of HTML, CSS and Java Script.
In addition to drag and drop, VBCS provides direct access to the code. One can
easily modify the generated code and see the impact on the visual screen. VBCS can handle large volumes of
data with built-in support for pagination, filtering and sorting. Web
Services based Application are very light weight and need very little cloud
server processing power as most of the VBCS UI processing is done on the client
browser. With few changes same application could be deployed outside the Oracle
Cloud.
To
summarize I am very impressed with VBCS. It is simple and powerful tool to build rapid production
grade enterprise applications. It runs on Oracle Cloud. VBCS could connect easily with
rest services and business components and has Other salient advantages like built
in Development Pipeline (CICD), Security and Internationalization.
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About the Author:
Vinay
Bhatia is an experienced product leader, passionate
about building financial products that delight the customers. He has the background
in technology, cloud and agile software development.
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