Oracle ADF Essentials - Overview
ADF Essentials provides probably the most
powerful (free) framework for developing Java/JEE Web Applications with high
productivity and rich functionality in either Oracle JDeveloper or in Eclipse
(with the OEPE plugin)- that can be deployed across JEE Containers including
Tomcat, JBoss, WebSphere, GlassFish and WebLogic. This offer is bound to
attract many more developers and organizations that until now were reluctant to
adopt ADF because of the license involved or the supposed tie in with WebLogic
and JDeveloper. However: since it is now free of charge and deployable on
Tomcat, JBoss and GlassFish – this earlier hesitation is likely to disappear.
The productivity and quite advanced functionality are likely to quickly bring
in many more developers from the Java/JEE arena.
Advantages
of ADF Essentials
Oracle ADF Essentials offers
advanced innovative functionality allowing
developers to build applications with richer functionality.
Some of the key capabilities of Oracle
ADF Essentials include:
·
Ajax and HTML5 enabled UI components
·
Reusable task-oriented controller layer
·
Declarative binding of UI to business
services
·
Declarative relational database access
layer
With the ability to deploy applications that are based
on Oracle ADF Essentials to various
servers, without
paying a license fee, more developers can leverage the powerful
Oracle Application Development Framework to speed up the creation of cutting
edge applications.
What
components of ADF faces are included in ADF Essentials
Oracle ADF Essentials includes
the following Oracle
ADF components: Oracle ADF Faces Rich Client Components, Oracle ADF Controller, Oracle
ADF Model and Oracle ADF Business Components.
The following
functionality is not included in Oracle ADF Essentials, and requires
the full Oracle ADF version
– Oracle ADF Mobile,
Oracle ADF Desktop Integration, Oracle ADF Security, The Oracle ADF Web service data control, Oracle ADF remote taskflows, Oracle ADF Business Component’s Service Interfaces, Oracle ADF Data Controls
for BI, Essbase and BAM, Integration with Oracle
Fusion Middleware features such as MDS, OPSS, OWSM,
Enterprise Manager and MBeans,
High Availability and Clustering.
Note:
ADF
Essentials is not open source. The ADF sources are available to customers with
an ADF license. There is no community process around further evolving ADF. ADF
is and stays Oracle’s strategic development framework for its enterprise
applications. It has no intention whatsoever to relinquish control over one of
its most important technologies. However, it is interested in sharing that
technology with a much wider audience.There is no separate version of Oracle JDeveloper specifically
for Oracle ADF Essentials
The same version of JDeveloper is used to build both Oracle ADF Essentials applications as well as applications that leverage
the full Oracle ADF.
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