ADF Developer's Guides and Recommended Technology Stacks for JDeveloper/ADF 10.1.3: "ADF Developer's Guides and Recommended Technology Stacks for JDeveloper/ADF 10.1.3
Date: January 30, 2006
ADF Developer's Guides for JDeveloper 10.1.3
We heard loud and clear that what was missing in the base documentation set is a proper ADF Developer's Guide you can read cover to cover and learn all the fundamentals of using the framework. We've studied our current and future potential customer base and have identified two key constituencies to target as part of helping people get started quickly with Oracle ADF, based on their background and priorities for declarative development:
* One group comprises developers coming from 4GL tools like Oracle Forms, Visual Basic, PowerBuilder, or other similar environments for whom a maximally declarative end-to-end development experience is top priority. The 4000+ developers in our own Oracle Applications division (and growing!) fall into this category, along with thousands of existing JDeveloper/Oracle ADF developers and partners outside of Oracle. This group also includes existing Oracle Forms and Oracle Designer customers who might be thinking to target J2EE development for a future new application project. These developers appreciate the prescriptive business tier approach that ADF Business Components provides to complement the other layers of the overall ADF framework. You can already see our focus ramping up steadily over the past year on this important target audience by visiting the J2EE Application Developer for Forms and Designers home page on OTN.
* The other group are experienced J2EE developers for whom maximum implementation flexibility in the business service tier is top priority. These developers will appreciate the value-add of our declarative databinding layer, but prefer creating their own business domain classes, mapping them with Oracle Toplink, and building service fa"
