ADF Business Components With MySQL
Most of the application built on Oracle ADF uses Oracle RDBMS as Database. The driving factor here is to leverage the feature richness of Oracle DB. Does it mean ADF is tightly coupled with Oracle DB? Answer is NO, ADF can be well integrated with other databases as well. Small to medium size applications can live even with some light weight databases and they may not require the sophisticated features provided by Oracle DB. MySQL appears to be more popular among the community now a days. There are quite a lot articles on using ADF with MySQL. But it seems that most of them are outdated or rather ADF improves at lightening speed. This article can be considered as an extension of How To Use ADF Business Components with MySQL OK, had enough theory ,now into action. Setup the basic infrastructure JDeveloper discussed in this article is based on version 11.1.1.1.0 and MySQL is 5.x or higher. Apparently, JDeveloper is not packaged with JDBC driver library for MySQL. So let us...