Binding the Data - Oracle ADF 11gR2 Development Beginner's Guide - page 124

Attributes
The atributes are displayed within the view object collecion. The collecion will hold
all the atributes available for the view object collecion. The atributes are dragged
and dropped onto the page to display the informaion of the paricular atribute.
Operations
Operaions are the acions bounded within the application module or the view object
collecion. The exposed operaions are mapped to an acion component to invoke the acion
and execute the operaion.
For the application module, we have the default operaions deined. They are the Commit
and Rollback operaions.
The operaions available for the view object collecion are as follows:
Create : This operaion is available to create a new record for the table component.
The newly created record will not be inserted and is not displayed in the UI for a table
component. For a form-based component, this method will create a new record and
will display the informaion.
CreateInsert : This operaion will create a new record and will also insert a
blank record if there is no default value assigned for the atributes of the record.
The newly created row is displayed in the UI for the table component.
Create with parameters : This method will allow the user to create a new
record with some parameters, and the values passed as parameters will be
predefined for the created row.
Delete : This operaion is used to delete the current row from the view
object collecion.
Execute : This operaion will execute and refresh the current collecion.
Find : To ind a speciic record in the collecion object.