# Development Performance Guidelines

This document includes information, guidelines, and strategies to help designers and developers understand performance impacts when developing a feature using the Oracle Utilities Application Framework.

- Object-Relational Mapping: Background
- Avoid Extra SQL
- Prepared statement - use binding
- Service Script vs. Java Services
- Java Performance Patterns
- Batch Performance
- Data Explorer
- UI Maps and BPAs
- Diagnosing Performance Issues
- Optimization and Performance Profiling
- References and Additional Resources

Parent topic: Developer Guide