Sten Vesterli
Oracle Visual Builder Cloud Service Revealed Rapid Application Development for Web and Mobile
Sten Vesterli
Vaerloese, Denmark
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Sten Vesterli 2019
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For my wife Lotte and our children Michael and Maria and others like them who work to make the world a better place through word, code, and deed.
Introduction
This book introduces you to Oracle Visual Builder Cloud Service (VBCS), which allows you to build and deploy an attractive, user-friendly web or mobile application in one day or less.
In todays fast-paced world, the ability to rapidly deliver running code is the most crucial and sought-after skill a developer can have. Oracle has brought together their enterprise experience, advanced usability, and cloud engineering to produce this innovative platform giving developers unprecedented productivity.
With the visual and browser-based approach of VBCS, developers of all expertise levels can quickly solve simple business problems. For more sophisticated applications, experienced developers can dive into the code and add Groovy and JavaScript business logic. Most VBCS applications run in the Oracle Cloud to get the full benefit of the VBCS tool, but it is possible to build VBCS web applications and deploy them to other clouds or on-premise.
To get started with this book, you need to sign up for an Oracle Cloud account at https://cloud.oracle.com . Oracle offers free trials with several hundred dollars worth of cloud credits. Unfortunately, the free trial is limited to 30 days, so you should make sure you will have enough time available to evaluate the product when you start the trial.
Chapter shows how to create service connections to data sources outside VBCS.
Chapter shows how to use VBCS to build mobile applications for Android and iOS and as progressive web applications.
Chapter explains how to integrate VBCS with Oracle Process Cloud Service.
Im happy you have picked up this book and believe Visual Builder Cloud Service will be a great addition to your skillset.
Acknowledgments
From Oracle, I want to thank Brian Fry, Duncan Mills, Jules Lane, Shay Shmeltzer, and Steve Morton for making Visual Builder Cloud Service demo environments available, for their blog posts detailing important points, and for answering my questions.
From Apress, I thank Jonathan Gennick for believing in a Visual Builder Cloud Service book and Jill Balzano for shepherding the project to completion.
I also want to thank my technical reviewers, Andrejus Baranovskis and Florin Marcus, for their comments and suggestions.
Finally, I want to express my love and gratitude for my wonderful wife, who has been unfailingly supportive when I mark yet another batch of weekends book chapter deadline in our calendar.
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About the Author and About the Technical Reviewers
About the Author
Sten Vesterli
is one of the worlds leading experts on Oracle technology and has worked almost every development tool produced by Oracle in the last several decades, including ADF, APEX, JET, VBCS, Forms, Reports, Designer, Oracle Portal, Oracle WebDB, Oracle BPEL, Oracle Collaboration Suite, and even Oracle Power Objects.
He is a frequent speaker at Oracle conferences around the world and has given hundreds of presentations at Oracle OpenWorld and at ODTUG KScope, IOUG Collaborate, UKOUG, DOAG, and many other user group conferences. His presentations are highly rated by the participants, and he has received the ODTUG best speaker award twice.
Known for his ability to explain technology clearly, Sten writes the popular Oracle Watch newsletter and articles for Oracle Profit , Oracle Scene , and other publications. He has previously written five books on Oracle technologies and is excited to present this first book on Oracle Visual Builder Cloud Service.
Sten was a member of Oracles elite Oracle ACE Director program for a decade until his penchant for telling the unvarnished truth got him excommunicated. An independent consultant based in Denmark, Sten works with customers worldwide, helping them get the most from their investment in Oracle software.
He holds a private pilot license for single-engine aircraft, and his personal projects have included an Ironman and an ultramarathon in Denmark, climbing Mont Blanc in France, a 2-week hike in Greenland, skydiving in Denmark, a 3-week trek around Annapurna in Nepal, paragliding in the Alps, rock climbing in Sweden, glacier walking in Norway, and scuba diving in Thailand.
You can find Sten online at www.vesterli.com , on LinkedIn, and on twitter @stenvesterli.
About the Technical Reviewers