Introduction

In today's environment, enterprise applications have become more and more complex; they need the underlying technology to be scalable, distributed, component based, and mission critical.

Designing and developing such enterprise applications means going through hundreds of requirements; failure to meet any of these requirements can lead to the failure of the whole project. However, Oracle ADF comes to the rescue. Oracle ADF is a Java EE framework that inherits Java EE security, robustness, and scalability.

It also adheres to the rapid application development principles in today's agile world. These principles provide the developer with a rich out-of-the-box functionality to focus and give his/her 100 percent to the business logic.

Oracle ADF is an end-to-end framework that follows the Model View Controller (MVC) pattern as illustrated in the following diagram:

Oracle ADF offerings vary between mobile solutions with Oracle ADF Mobile and the Desktop Integration solution, which can...