Oracle Application Development Framework
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In computing, Oracle Application Development Framework, usually called Oracle ADF, provides a commercial Java framework for building 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.
Supported technologies
Based on the MVC architecture. Oracle ADF can support any combination of the following:
Model
- EJBs
- Web Services
- TopLink
- Javabeans
- POJO - simple Java classes (Plain Old Java Objects)
- ADF Business components
- Portlets
- CSV and XML files
- JavaServer Faces (JSF)
- ADF Task Flows
- Struts
View
- Swing
- JavaServer Pages (JSP)
- JavaServer Faces (JSF)
- ADF Faces
The Oracle JDeveloper free Integrated Development Environment provides a 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.
Mobile application development support is now part of Oracle ADF and JDeveloper. It provides support for both mobile browser applications, as well as on-device, native, disconnected mobile applications.
Implementors can deploy Oracle ADF applications on J2EE-compliant containers.
History
Oracle Corporation has marketed parts of Oracle ADF since 1999 — specifically ADF Business Components — then known as "JBO" and later as "BC4J" ("Business Components for Java").[1]
The current[update] 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".
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 third-party application-server can purchase an ADF runtime licence at their local Oracle sales office. users can develop and test Oracle ADF applications free of charge declaratively within Oracle JDeveloper.
Oracle Corporation purchased Weblogic in June 2008, and thus no longer regards it as a third-party application-server, so ADF is included in every Weblogic license.[2]
Supported customers can get access to the source code for Oracle ADF through a request to Oracle Support.
See also
- JBoss Seam
- Spring framework
- JDeveloper
- JSF
- Struts
- Ruby on Rails
- Django (web framework)
- Eclipse
- GRAILS
- Oracle Fusion
External links
- Official website
- Mobile Application Development
- ADF Learning Center
- ADF Faces website
- Oracle JDeveloper site
- Basic Demo
- Tutorial
- Oracle ADF Blog
- JSR-227
References
- ↑ Dorsey, Paul; Koletzke, Peter; Faderman, Avrom (December 2002) Oracle9i Jdeveloper handbook pp. 932 http://www.lavoisier.fr/fr/livres/not2.asp?id=OOLR33F32SKOGC. Retrieved 2009-09-15 "[...]Business Components for Java (BC4J)[...]"
- ↑ Source: http://blogs.oracle.com/devtools/2008/08/announcing_oracle_weblogic_ser.html
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