Oracle ADF: af:navigationPane instead af:panelTabbed

Issue

Show Database table rows in an ADF Page using tabs: Each tab have to represent a table record and content's information, there could be many tabs to show.

Solution

The tab content has the same structure for every DB table row. It's possible to use the af:panelTabbed and af:showDetailItem for each row, iterating it with an af:iterator.

  <af:panelTabbed>
     <af:iterator>
       <af:showDetailItem>
         .....
         <!-- tab content -->
         .....
       </af:showDetailItem>
     </af:iterator>
  </af:panelTabbed>

This approach has a disadvantage: the page is rendered with each tab and its content, duplicating the tab detail for each rendered tab (tab content could be very complex). If, in the page, there are many tabs it could slow down the page behavior.
An alternative approach could be simulate the tab behavior using an af:navigationPane. In this case a af:forEach iterates the tabs component represented by the af:commandNavigationItem.