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Application Development Framework, usually called Oracle ADF, provides a

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for building

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s. It provides visual and declarative approaches to Java EE development. It supports

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based on ready-to-use

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-driven and visual tools.

Supported technologies

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

Model

* Web Services - both SOAP and REST *

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- and

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* POJO - simple Java classes (Plain Old Java Objects) * ADF Business components(entity object, view object) *

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s * CSV and

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files * SQL Queries

Controller

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(JSF) * ADF Task Flows - extension of the JSF controller layer that adds complete process flow and reusability aspects. * Struts * Jspx (JavaServer Pages, XML compliant variation of the JSP standard)

View

* Swing *

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(JSP) *

(JSF) * ADF Faces - an Oracle implementation of JavaServer Faces *

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* ADF Mobile browser - based on

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Trinidad * Excel through ADF desktop integration The Oracle

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provides a graphical interface for creating data-management applications using ADF. Oracle also offers Eclipse based tooling for ADF in Oracle Enterprise Pack For Eclipse. Implementers can deploy Oracle ADF applications on

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-compliant

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s. Oracle WebLogic and IBM WebSphere are officially supported. Users of the free ADF Essentials edition can buy support for these applications on GlassFish.

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"). The ADF architecture with the generic model/binding layer was introduced with JDeveloper 9.0.5. In June 2006 Oracle Corporation donated the ADF Faces component library to Apache Trinidad. (ADF Faces, Oracle's JSF implementation, includes over 100 components.) In September 2012 Oracle introduced a free version of the core Oracle ADF technologies under the name "Oracle ADF Essentials". For more information, see http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/developer-tools/adf/overview/components-1844931.html.

Licensing

Oracle ADF Essentials is a free to develop and deploy packaging of the key core technologies of Oracle ADF. See the license terms for Oracle ADF Essentials: http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/licenses/adf-essentials-license-1837221.html For the "full" Oracle ADF: The Oracle Application Server licence includes a component for a license 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 license at their local Oracle sales office. Users can develop and test Oracle ADF applications free of charge exclusively 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.Source: http://blogs.oracle.com/devtools/2008/08/announcing_oracle_weblogic_ser.html Supported customers can get access to the source code for Oracle ADF through a request to Oracle Support.

References

External links

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Oracle ADF EssentialsTutorialJSR-227 (withdrawn)
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