Ask for helps and comments for a practicing ADF sample: Entering bank transaction records

Question

Dear experts:
I'm redeveloping a practicing ADF sample application based on an exist application system of  my company.
Here is the goal for this redeveloping:
What degree of productivity can adf achieve compare to eclipse?
And hereby is a small example I began from last Monday. some progress has been achieved, but pretty lot of difficulties remained,
so I post all neccessary informations to this forum, and ask for your kind helps and comments.
Thank you all in advance!
Introduction                                                      
The X company has some bank accounts in different banks, also it’s customers may have more than one bank account in different banks. Transactions between the X company’s bank accounts and it’s new or regular customers’ bank accounts happened heavily in daily. Bank transfer records in paper form will be collected and need to be entered into an in-house Financial System(NX1)  of the X company every day.
This module will implement the function of Entering Bank transactions records for NX1.
In future, this Data Entering work for NX1 will be handled by some data exchange interface automatically.
And the following implementation will be based on ORACLE XE 11g,  Jdev/ADF 12c.
This link can download  the document for the example, I will upload Database scripts and JDEV application files tonight.
http://223.4.132.24:8180/BlobUtilServlet?tableName=FILE_TABLE&columnName=BODY&stuffID=020010110000001481&strNO=1&type=downfile&fileName=NXDemo1.doc&directOpen=true
(The above link is a website of our own. if you meet any difficulty when access it, please let me know: [email protected]).

Answer 1

Hi, Timo and Frank,
Thank you all for your kind replies and sound suggestions!
Now let me talk freely on this thread-and I will limit my topic scope within this Jdev/ADF Space’s theme but maybe in a more broad perspectives. And I will separate topics into different posts to avoid over length of each post. Hope you will have enough patience to read through this some long story!
Notice: Links in this article will refer to somewhere of OTN itself or a website of our own. There is no security concern on the server. For example:
http://223.4.132.24:8180/webfavorite.do?method=index&topTag=shou_A&txtTitle=ADF
(This link is collection of internet links and some abstract for each article on ADF. Not much contents on ADF in Chinese can be found.)
What you are up to?
First of all, I need to make some introduction of myself to answer “what you are up to”.
I come from China, living and working at Shenzhen city which is close to Hong Kong. And now I am running a small software company with 20 employees, our main business is to develop database centered applications which include in-house workflow/information management systems and websites/portals for organizations.
I have a pretty strong conviction that software technology should emancipate people from routine trivial mental works, just like engines in the industry revolution free people from heavily physical works. So I have a strong inclination for everything to be “automated”.
For running a company, this “automation” will not only bring the “aesthetics of everything running by itself”, but also will mean more productivity, quality and profits.—After all, no-living stuff is always cheaper than living creatures, let alone to say human beings.
However, when we software industry tried to automate business fields for our clients, the process of making software itself was still a manpower intensive, less-automation business. and this result a expensive products.
More than 15 years ago, when I began to work in an IT department of a big organization, I got to know the Oracle Designer/Developer 2000, and have being a diligent FORM/REPORT programmer for more than 4 years. I like the concept and practice of declarative design and automated generation.
And then more years past, and I left that organization and began to run a software company myself. And during these days, the mainstream technology of software development had been web oriented, Java/J2EE which I had no idea totally. But we have other guys who had expertise on it. So I just leave these works and decisions to them. And it seemed works at the beginning.
But after several years of business operation of application development for clients, I found this was a difficult-money-earn business. Even if our guys had worked hard, project schedules’ delay, over budget, clients’ complain was easily happened. Sometime we had more projects/contracts than what we can undertake, but we dare not to hire more people. I was confused:
-Was it a common situation in this field all over the world?
-What’s the key factor should responsible for?
-Where to start to improve the situation?
I know there are many factors should responsible, it’s a complex situation. Find more talented people and give better incentives for them to work hard is one choice—but it’s also a difficult task especially for a small company like ours. So to start from easy and confine solution’s scope is:
-We have these guys now, what we can do best?
(To be continued)