Oracle JDeveloper 11g Handbook

CHAPTER 16Application Design Principles and Sample Application Overview

If you want to build a ship,don’t drum up people to collect woodand don’t assign them tasks and work,but rather teach them to long for the endless immensity of the sea.

—Antoine de Saint-Exupéry (1900–1944)

This part of the book takes you out of all the theory and background of the preceding chapters into the useful practical work of building something with the Fusion framework. The quote at the head of this chapter is very apt in this case. We find much of our application design driven not by cold hard logic or a rigid design palette, but rather by the whims of our customers and users. Much of the skill that you will acquire as you become proficient with Fusion technologies ...