VBCS - important parts or tools under Navigator

The vertical toolbar is the navigator. It has following parts:

Web applications

Services

Business Objects

Layouts

Components

Processes

Source

Web applications:

We can create multiple web apps within our visual application. Each web app is independent, but they can all use the data sources defined in the visual application.

Services:

With the help of service connections, connect to REST APIS, to any back end systems like database ORDS system, fusion applications etc which has exposed as a rest. If we need to connect a soap connection. Then better to use oic integration to connect soap service, then from vbcs servics, we can the rest integration service as servicr catalog.

Business Objects:

• A business object is just a resource for example, en employee or address. It has fields to hold the data for your application. A business object is like database table. In fact, business objects are stored in a database.
• The web application accessess the business objects through their rest endpoints.

Layouts & Components:

 It has all the available oracle JET tools , we can install them and use in our web pages such as about page, calender, attachments viewer, data grid , dynamic table etc.

Processes: 

using this section, we can connect to PCS service like any human intervention workflow.

Source:

It stores all the sources of the components we drag and drop in the web app pages. As VBCS is a low code developement environment, it stores all the sources here with visual-application.json, package.json, gruntfile.json etc. Files.