Create ADF operation binding code in JDeveloper in a quick way

Let's assume we have an operation exposed in our data control, that we need to invoke programmatically from our managed bean that is behind the fragment we are working on; the following is a quick trick to make JDeveloper generate the operation binding access code for us (in this case, we want to execute the 'retrieveUserInfo' operation):

The first step is to drag and drop the operation into our page or fragment, selecting Method > ADF Button:

Once we do this, JDeveloper will generate the corresponding binding for us in the page Definition file for the page/fragment, and then finally it creates a commandButton component on the page, having its action listener pointing to the newly created binding.

Once the commandButton has been created, right click on the component, and select 'Create Method binding for action', then selects the managed bean we want to create the code into:

If we have a look to the bean, we will notice that JDeveloper has generated the necessary code for us to be invoked.

BindingContainer bindings = BindingContext.getCurrent().getCurrentBindingsEntry();
OperationBinding operationBinding = bindings.getOperationBinding("retrieveUserInfo");
operationBinding.getParamsMap().put("username", userName);
operationBinding.execute();

At this point we can remove the commandButton component from the page, deleting it manually from the code; please DO NOT DELETE IT USING THE STRUCTURE PANEL as it will delete the binding as well!