Preface

Welcome to the Oracle Application Development Framework Developer's Guide for Forms/4GL Developers!

Audience

This manual is intended for enterprise developers who are familiar with 4GL tools like Oracle Forms, PeopleTools, SiebelTools, and Visual Studio, and who need to create and deploy database-centric J2EE applications with a service-oriented architecture using the Oracle Application Development Framework (Oracle ADF). This guide explains how to build these applications using ADF Business Components, JavaServer Faces, and ADF Faces: the same technology stack Oracle employs to build the web-based Oracle EBusiness Suite.

Note:

If you are already an advanced J2EE developer and maximally declarative development is not a top priority, Oracle offers a parallel developer's guide for Oracle ADF that may be more appropriate for you. In particular, if you prefer building your business service layer using EJB session beans, POJO classes, an O/R mapping layer, and your own J2EE design pattern code, this other guide helps you understand how to use Oracle ADF with these business service implementation technologies. You can access this alternative guide from JDeveloper 10g product center on OTN at http://otn.oracle.com/jdev/.

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Related Documents

For more information, see the following documents:

• Oracle Application Development Framework Developer's Guide, an alternative guide for advanced J2EE developers who wish to work with EJB seesion beans in their application's business service layer, among other technologies.

• Oracle JDeveloper 10g Release Notes, included with your JDeveloper 10g installation, and on Oracle Technology Network

• Oracle JDeveloper 10g Online Help

• Oracle Application Server 10g Release Notes

• Oracle Application Server 10g Documentation Library available on CD-ROM and on Oracle Technology Network

Conventions

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Convention	Meaning
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