Oracle Application Development Framework (ADF)

Application Development Framework provides high performance for the application developers who are engaged in application programming of the corporate level taking into account industry standards.

ADF is the platform giving to developers non-standard opportunities and ready infrastructure. Thanks to this platform of the organization can provide expansion of functionality of the developed applications. Thanks to JDeveloper in combination with ADF the concept of "Productivity with Choice" (Productivity with a possibility of the choice) will provide the high performance of development team and project implementation with the minimum labor costs.

According to the company, Oracle ADF is commercial Java EE a framework which provides development of corporate web applications with an easy, evident and declarative way. ADF offers together with a broad spectrum of components and group of frameworks (for example, TopLink, JavaServer Faces and Struts) the complete approach based on Model-View-Controller the principle. Thanks to the checked design patterns managed by metadata of components and visual tools rapid application development is provided.

2013. New version of Oracle ADF 12c

The Oracle company released update - the version of Oracle ADF 12c what announced on August 1, 2013.

Oracle ADF 12c offers new functionality and expanded support of building tools in new versions of Oracle JDeveloper 12c and Oracle Enterprise Pack for Eclipse 12c.

Main Characteristics

• support of mobile/tablet devices — the improved support of touch user interfaces and adaptive configuration of elements;
• the new, improved components — for data visualization, providing information display using animation, the TreeMap collections, lists and sector charts and also the facilitated setup with a new subject and the visual editor of subjects;
• new control facilities of data of REST (simplify integration of business services based on REST), control facilities of data of EJB/JPA (offer advanced functionality for integration of JPA/EJB services into Oracle applications of ADF).