4 Overview of ADF Business Components

This chapter provides an overview of the ADF Business Components layer of Oracle ADF, including a description of the key features they provide for building your business services.

This chapter includes the following sections:

• Section 4.1, "Prescriptive Approach and Reusable Code for Business Services"

• Section 4.2, "What are ADF Business Components and What Can They Do?"

• Section 4.3, "Relating ADF Business Components to Familiar 4GL Tools"

• Section 4.4, "Overview of ADF Business Components Implementation Architecture"

• Section 4.5, "Understanding the Active Data Model"

• Section 4.6, "Overview of ADF Business Components Design Time Facilities"