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Hi Guys,
Just wondering how you go about generating a pre-populated ADF form. Is it something that is done though the ADF designer and Business Objects? or do you have to create the Database tables seperatley and bind them into ADF and the workflow. Specifically I want this so a user is presented with a several drop-down lists when the initiator human task is run.
Thanks,
Ross

Hi Ross
1. Yes, in the very first place in the Database, we added all the data manually for all the Lookups. Its our own custom Schema. We are planning to provide some simple admin screens in a different WebApps to maintain these lookup values. Note that this is a different simple ADF App, with one EJB Layer and EJB Layer calling this database and getting/updating the values.
2. ALSO, we have some lookup values that we get from totally another System/application like Oracle EBS Suite. For this, we already have a custom schema created. In this custom schema, we have some stored procedures created by the EBS database developers (they are more familiar with EBS). Now within our EJB layer, we use JPA architecture, call these stored procedures, and get all the lookup values and show in the TaskDetails page. These lookup values are maintained in EBS itself, so we do not have any custom admin screens within our SOA/BPM project.
In conclusion, for our SOA/BPM applications, we have like 2 Databases. First database is for SOA Components where we run RCU comand and it has all SOA_INFRA, MDS, ORABAM schemas etc. The second database is for our custom schema specific to our application. Here we have our own lookup tables, custom tables and any cutom stored procedures that coonect to external EBS etc. From Weblogic console, we just create a Datasource for this second database and use that in JPA layer (persistence.xml file). For the first database, you already know that at domain creation itself, it will create all datasources also.
Thanks
Ravi Jegga

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