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Oracle Application Development Framework (Oracle Adf) 11G: Components For Rich Enterprise Applications

ORACLE APPLICATION DEVELOPMENT FRAMEWORK (ORACLE ADF) 11G KEY FEATURES AND BENEFITS. Oracle ADF is an end-to-end development framework, built on top of Oracle ADF 11g. The framework provides integrated infrastructure solutions for the various layers of the application and an easy way to develop on top of them.

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Oracle Application Development Framework (Oracle Adf) 11G: Components For Rich Enterprise Applications

ORACLE APPLICATION DEVELOPMENT FRAMEWORK (ORACLE ADF) 11G KEY FEATURES AND BENEFITS. Oracle ADF is an end-to-end development framework, built on top of Oracle ADF 11g. The framework provides integrated infrastructure solutions for the various layers of the application and an easy way to develop on top of them.

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ORACLE DATA SHEET

ORACLE APPLICATION
DEVELOPMENT FRAMEWORK
(ORACLE ADF) 11G
KEY FEATURES AND BENEFITS

Oracle ADF is an end-to-end development framework, built on top of


ORACLE ADF 11G
FEATURES the Enterprise Java platform, offering unparalleled productivity to
• Powerful Components for application developers. The framework provides integrated
REA/RIA
• Page Flow 2.0
infrastructure solutions for the various layers of the application and
• Declarative Data Binding an easy way to develop on top of them.
• Declarative Business Services

• Multi-Channel Client Support


• Declarative End-to-End Components For Rich Enterprise Applications
Security Oracle ADF includes a set of over a 150 standards-based Java Server Faces (JSF)
• Declarative Application
components with built-in Ajax functionality. With these components, web deployed
Customization
• Reusability
user interfaces can be developed with a level of functionality and interactivity
• Developer Productivity previously reserved for thick-client applications. The components offer data
• Ease of Use interaction, data visualization, and encapsulated browser side operations in a set of
easy to use components that makes rich client application development easier than
ever.

Page Flow 2.0


Oracle ADF extends the basic JSF controller to provide the ADF Controller. The
ADF Controller solves some of the key problems inherent in Rich Enterprise
Applications by providing: enhanced page and operations flow control,
comprehensive state management, and reusability of flows as components in other
flows and inside JSF pages and portals.

Drag and Drop Data Binding


ADF provides a data-binding framework that simplifies the task of binding UI to
business services down to simple drag and drop operations in the IDE. This is done
while still keeping the independence of the business service from its consumer. With
the framework, the UI developer is insulated from the underlying implementation of
the business service layer. This makes the process of building the UI truly decoupled
from the implementation of the business service layer, better positioning the
application for implementation in a service-oriented architecture.

ADF Business Components


ADF Business Components stands out for the task of business service development
and object relational mapping by virtue of its highly declarative metadata based
development style. These powerful components are visually designed and
customized to allow declarative access to relational databases. The business
components can implement custom business functionality, declarative validation,
security, and advanced object-relational integration.

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ADF Business Components is just one of the possible business service


implementations within the ADF meta-framework. Developers are also free to use
EJB/JPA, Web Services, POJOs and other implementations for the service layer.

Multi-channel Clients
ADF applications can be developed with an eye towards a variety of delivery
methods. The framework supports direct implementation of web-based interfaces,
mobile delivery, and desktop applications, including integration with Microsoft
Excel. This is as simple as designing the application to utilize the appropriate
components catered to the delivery methods of choice. In many cases the
components utilized to implement one delivery method can provide support for
others with no changes needed.

Security
ADF provides a robust permission based security implementation that integrates into
an ADF based application in a declarative fashion. Security can be implemented at
various layers within the application to achieve the desired level of security
granularity. ADF Security is based on Oracle Platform Security Services (OPSS),
the security foundation for Oracle Fusion Middleware and is fully integrated with
enterprise identity & access management components. Existing investments can be
reused such as Oracle Access Manager for Single Sign-on or Oracle Internet
Directory and Microsft Active Directory for LDAP Services.

Declarative Application Customization


ADF provides out-of-the-box declarative application customization, using the
capabilities of Oracle’s metadata repository. Any ADF application can be
customized by layering on changes to an application without modifying the base
source code. Customization can be done for each of the layers of the framework
achieving a customized application fitting the needs of specific users.

Productivity
ADF application development using Oracle JDeveloper offers a comprehensive
visual and declarative experience. This means that wherever possible the developer
has the capability to design an application utilizing visual editors and diagrams and
then customize that design through integrated dialogs and property inspectors.
JDeveloper also provides the ability for the developer to choose to directly
manipulate source code at any time. This provides the option to switch between
development styles at will to suit the type of application or preferences of the
developer.

JDeveloper provides a complete debugging solution that allows you to set


breakpoints within the multiple languages and frameworks that are typically used
within an application, for example, Java, JSP, PL/SQL and ADF. JDeveloper alone
offers this unique unified debugging experience, seamlessly stepping the developer
through these code and framework layers.

Along with the superior reusability features already described, ADF provides
additional support for reusability through ADF Libraries and the Business Resource

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Catalog. These allow you to package up and share various framework artifacts and
business components into simple distributable archives.

Conclusion
Oracle’s Application Development Framework offers an unparalleled level of
productivity for application developers looking to build enterprise applications
based on industry standards. ADF stands alone by providing amazing features out of
the box with all of the plumbing already provided for the developer. With this easy
to use framework, organizations can bring the richest levels of feature functionality
to their developed applications. Finally, by utilizing JDeveloper for ADF
development, the vision of “Productivity with Choice” makes any development
effort capable of achieving unequalled team productivity with a minimum of
required effort.

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