A Home for Your Chrome

(Steve Muench) When creating a professional-looking presentation, you define a consistent layout and style for all your slides by editing the "master slide." You can concentrate on the content and easily change the look later. Using an analogous new feature in the upcoming Oracle JDeveloper/Oracle Application Development Framework (Oracle ADF) 11g release, you design a "master page" to enforce a consistent layout and style for all the pages in your Web application. In this column, we define a page template including common UI elementsor "chrome," as Web designers call itand then create a JavaServer Faces (JSF) page based on this template. After testing the template-based page, we'll change the template and see it reflected in the page automatically.