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365 Introduction To Adf

This document introduces Oracle Application Development Framework (Oracle ADF), which is an end-to-end application framework built on Java and J2EE standards. It follows the Model-View-Controller (MVC) architecture with an additional business service layer. The view layer contains user-interactive pages. The controller layer handles user input and navigation. The model layer represents data and binds it to the view. The business service layer handles data access and encapsulates business logic, and can use technologies like EJB, web services, or ADF Business Components. Future articles will cover each layer in more detail.

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365 Introduction To Adf

This document introduces Oracle Application Development Framework (Oracle ADF), which is an end-to-end application framework built on Java and J2EE standards. It follows the Model-View-Controller (MVC) architecture with an additional business service layer. The view layer contains user-interactive pages. The controller layer handles user input and navigation. The model layer represents data and binds it to the view. The business service layer handles data access and encapsulates business logic, and can use technologies like EJB, web services, or ADF Business Components. Future articles will cover each layer in more detail.

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Introduction to ADF

Written by OracleTech
Sunday, 07 December 2008 17:46

What is ADF?
The Oracle Application Development Framework (Oracle ADF) is an end-to-end application
framework built on Java Platform, J2EE standards and open-source technologies. Oracle ADF
and JDeveloper 11g gives you an environment that covers the full development lifecycle from
design to deployment, with drag-and-drop and wizard driven development, visual UI design, and
many more features built in to ease large application development. ADF Architecture

ADF follows the proven, industry wide accepted Model-View-Controller (MVC) architecture. ADF
extends this MVC to one more layer - Business Service. Each layer in ADF has distinct role and
specific responsibility.

- The view layer is the top most layer, that user sees and interacts with. It contains the UI
pages used to view or modify that data. We call this part as ADFv. This layer is developed using
ADF Faces Rich Client components that are built on  standard JSF components  with lot of
built-in AJAX and Web 2.0 like features. In addition to this, it also supports 
Apache myfaces Trinidad
 components, Java and ADF Swing components. It also has ADF Mobile components that are
specifically built for Mobile applications.
- The controller layer processes user input and determines page navigation. With ADF, you
do not write any JSP re-directs or URL calls. It is all declarative, drag-and-drop supported. We
call this part as ADFc. ADFc provides an enhanced navigation and state management model on
top of JSF. JDeveloper allows you to declaratively creat flows where you can pass application
control between different types of pages and flows, conditionally using declarative case
statements
- The model layer represents the data values related to the current view. Model is also
responsibile for binding the data to the view. We call this part as ADFm. It implementes  J
SR-227
 service abstraction called the data control. It abstracts the implementation of business service
layer. In addition to ADFbc, it also supports other technologies like 
EJB
, 
Web Services
, CSV, 
POJO
 etc.
- The business service layer handles data access between model and DB or any other data
storage. It encapsulates business logic and rules. You can use any technology for this layer.
ADF has its own technology for this and we call this part as ADFbc (ADF Business
Components). ADFbc facilitates backend service for query, create, update, delete operations
and provide lot of features to implement validations and business logic.

Article on each of these layers to follow.

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