Oracle Application Development Framework

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Oracle Application Development Framework, usually called Oracle ADF, provides a commercial Java framework for creating enterprise applications. It provides visual and declarative approaches to J2EE development. It supports rapid application development based on ready-to-use design patterns, metadata-driven and visual tools.

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[edit] Supported technologies

Based on the MVC architecture. Oracle ADF can support any combination of the following:

[edit] Model

  • CSV and XML files


[edit] View

The Oracle JDeveloper free Integrated Development Environment provides a very graphical way to create data management applications using ADF.

Regardless of the technology used, developers get a drag-and-drop development approach for connecting the user interface to business services. The ADF Model layer functions as the base for JSR-227.

Oracle ADF applications can be deployed on J2EE compliant containers.

[edit] History

Parts of Oracle ADF have been in used since 1999 - specifically ADF Business Components - then known as JBO and later as BC4J.

The current ADF architecture with the generic model/binding layer was introduced with JDeveloper 9.0.5.

To find out more specific details about versions and release dates see JDeveloper.

In June 2006 Oracle Corporation donated the ADF Faces component library to Apache Trinidad. (ADF Faces, Oracle's JSF implementation, includes over 100 components.)

From Jonas Jacobi: Voters selected the name "Trinidad" for the following reasons:

  • The Apache MyFaces project already contains a sub-project called Tobago. Tobago has associations with Trinidad in respect of the country Trinidad and Tobago.
  • The word Trinidad in Spanish means "Trinity", which for Matrix buffs has good connotations and links to "the Oracle".

[edit] Licensing

The Oracle Application Server licence includes a component for a licence fee for Oracle ADF. This means that all users who have purchased an Oracle Application Server licence may use Oracle ADF for free. Users who want to deploy ADF to a 3rd party application server can purchase an ADF runtime licence at their local Oracle sales office. Development of Oracle ADF applications, as well as testing, is free of charge and can be done declaratively within Oracle JDeveloper.

Since June 2008, Weblogic is owned by Oracle Corporation and is not considered a 3rd party application server, so ADF is included in every Weblogic license.[1]

Supported customers can get access to the source code for Oracle ADF through a request from Oracle Support.

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