Introduction to ADF

Oracle ADFInsider Essentials

 

Oracle ADF(Application Development Framework) is a constituent part of Fusion middleware and is the technology used for desktop/web development in the Fusion middleware stack.

Fusion middleware is a complete family of application infrastructure products which include an Enterprise application server, tools for Integration- and process-management,Business intelligence,Content management,Identity management,Performance,User interaction and application development tools.

Oracle ADF falls into the application development tools category.It is an end-to-end Java EE framework that simplifies application development by providing out of the box infrastructure services and a visual and declarative development experience.

JDeveloper is the primary integrated development environment and the tool for developing applications based on ADF.

On the technical aspects development with ADF is primarily based on MVC design concepts and there are a variety of tools and frameworks to cater the need.Listed below are technologies that can be used in each layer.

Model

    * EJBs

    * Web Services

    * TopLink

    * Javabeans

    * POJO - simple Java classes (Plain Old Java Objects)

    * ADF Business components

    * Portlets

    * CSV and XML files

View

    * Swing

    * JavaServer Pages (JSP)

    * JavaServer Faces (JSF)

    * ADF Faces

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