The Lookup View Object is a general-purpose interface onto the table FND_LOOKUP_VALUES. It is not intended that this VO is used directly; it is designed to be extended from to take advantage of the VOImpl and VORowImpl classes.
This VO Implementation class provides three methods that assist in finding Lookup Value records:
public LookupVORowImpl findRow(String lookupCode) public String getMeaning(String lookupCode) public String getDescription(String lookupCode)
The two get... methods are ideal when you have implemented a Poplist that returns a Code, but displays a Meaning or Description. For example, you may need to include the Meaning in a message to the User; to save a trip back to the database to look it up you can use the GetMeaning() method to retreive the value from the in-memory VO.
This is the standard OA Framework-generated RowImpl class for LookupVO
Wiki: TkPoplistAMImpl
Wiki: com.oaframework.toolkit.common.poplist