Adding the DBNavigator bean to the Visual Composition Editor surface

The DBNavigator bean is a visual bean that you use with a non-visual Select or ProcedureCall bean to access data in a relational database. The DBNavigator bean provides a set of buttons that execute the SQL statement for the associated non-visual bean; navigate rows of a result set, and perform other relational database operations, such as commit updates to the database.

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You add the DBNavigator bean to the Visual Composition Editor surface as follows:

  1. From the category drop-down menu in the Visual Composition Editor, select the Database category.
  2. Select DBNavigator bean .
  3. Move the mouse pointer to the location on the Visual Composition Editor surface where you want to place the DBNavigator bean.
  4. Press and hold mouse button 1. Without releasing the mouse button, move the mouse pointer to position it precisely.
  5. Release the mouse button. The DBNavigator bean is placed at the location of the mouse pointer.


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Beans Palette

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Composing beans visually