Main purpose of this post is for me to have a reference project and proof of concept using an ADF Skin as Library.
Part 1: Skin Application
So first the ADF Skin project should be created. Since JDevR2 this process has been simplified by new ADF Skin wizard.
In the next screen just give your skin a name and extend from the fusionFx-simple-v2.desktop Oracle Skin. It is specially designed with extensibility in mind for cusom skins. Fortunataly the recommended skin is selected. (It is not with every ADF/Jdeveloper feature ;). So well done Oracle!
The following bunch of things is created on the fly
Now lets create a "green" skin with smallest amount of modifications. This is achieved by opening the CSS file and
go to the "Images" View. Just change some of the colors.
And afterwards click "Apply to Skin"
=> This will generate a lot of images according to your color schema.
In order to support versioning of skin I am adding the following to the trinidad-skins.xml
<version>
<name>v1</name>
<default>true</default>
</version>
=>
Now we are ready to bundle the custom skin as ADF library. There is nothing special here. Create the Deployment profile, keep defaults and deploy.
Next step is to test the provisioning of the ADF Skin through ADF Library through File System connection. To do that we create a filesystem connection in the resource pallete
The Skin shows up as expected
Part 2: Consume ADF Skin
a) Create an pure empty Fusion ADF Application by wizard.
b) Select the ViewController project
c) Select adflib-myskin.jarm Right Click and Click add to Project
The Message Pane should output something like
These ADF Library jar items are now in ViewController.jpr
{
file:/C:/ak/JDeveloper/mywork/TestADFSkin/MySkin/deploy/adflib-myskin.jar
These are in the project as a result of your ADF jar imports:
Resource Bundle Variable Resolver from .../TestADFSkin/MySkin/MySkin.jpr
}
d) Apply custom ADF Skin as default in Project Properties>ADF View
e) Create a simple JSF Page based on the threeColumnTemplate and take a look
At Design-Time there seem to be some problems.
At Runtime it looks as expected
Is it a Bug at Design Time?
Using just a QuickLayout everything is as expected also in design time
Download Sample Workspaces: http://www.box.com/s/h8mggth460ntujhg7o3r
Did you tried to consume this skin in JDeveloper 11.1.1.x?
ReplyDeleteI must do, But I cannot consume the skin in JDev 11.1.1.x
Hi
ReplyDeletein a current project I am building the ADF skin JAR with the Skin Editor 11.1.2 and consume the JAR file 11.1.1.6 based ADF project.
So, this works for me actually.
Andreas.
You have to build the JAR in the skin editor, not Jdeveloper.
ReplyDeleteMy issue is that the skin (skin2) from the JAR is extending a skin (skin1) from another JAR. Loading a test page on the app that contains the skin2 files works fine, and it extends skin1 fine, but when I try to import the JAR containing skin2, skin2 fails to extend skin1.