Depending on the kind of Data Provider, more details on Data Providers later, that suits your needs there will be a variety of parameters you can use to set up your ADF Data Control for run time.
The easiest Data Provider is the resource data provider, it gets the run time information from a static resource.
You just need to tell the Data Provider where on the classpath he can find the static resource, after that the data will be displayed on screen:
If you want to call a web service, there is a special web service data provider.
This data provider takes a few more parameters, like the endpoint url and the request element.
The key to setting up the run time side of the Data Control is to tell the Data Provider where the data comes from and how to access it.
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