Oracle Application Development Framework, usually called Oracle ADF, is a commercial framework for quickly creating enterprise applications. Based on the MVC architecture it can use EJBs, Web Services, TopLink, Javabeans or ADF Business components for the model layer, JSF or Struts as the controller layer, and Swing, JSP or JSF as the view layer. The Oracle JDeveloper free Integrated Development Environment provides a very graphical way to create data management applications using ADF. Oracle Corporation (NASDAQ: ORCL), one of the major companies developing database management systems, tools for database development, enterprise resource planning software, customer relationship management software (CRM) and supply chain planning (SCM) software. ... This article or section should include material from Model view controller triad Model-View-Controller (MVC) is a software architecture that separates an applications data model, user interface, and control logic into three distinct components so that modifications to the view component can be made with minimal impact to... This article or section is in need of attention from an expert on the subject. ... TopLink [1] is an object-relational mapping package for Java developers. ... JavaServer Faces (aka JSF) is a Java-based web application framework that simplifies the development of user interfaces for J2EE applications. ... Jakarta Struts is an open-source framework for developing J2EE web applications. ... Example Swing widgets Swing is a GUI toolkit for Java. ... JavaServer Pages (JSP) is a Java technology that allows software developers to dynamically generate HTML, XML or other types of documents in response to a Web client request. ... JavaServer Faces (aka JSF) is a Java-based web application framework that simplifies the development of user interfaces for J2EE applications. ... JDeveloper is a Java IDE from Oracle. ... The expression free as in beer refers to things which are available at no monetary cost (like free beer at a party). ... An integrated development environment (IDE), also known as integrated design environment and integrated debugging environment, is a type of computer software that assists computer programmers to develop software. ...

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Oracle Application Development Framework (ADF) is a fully-featured framework for creating application program code in JDeveloper. It integrates with struts framework for Web Controller Functions, Enterprise Javabeans, Web Services, and java classes. It supports work with JSP's as a view alternative.