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Contents

Title and Copyright Information

Preface

• Audience
• Related Documents
• Conventions

What's New in This Guide

• New and Changed Features for Release 12c (12.2.1)
• Other Significant Changes in this Document for Release 12c (12.2.1)

Part I Understanding Oracle ADF

1 Introduction to Oracle ADF Administration

• 1.1 Introducing Oracle ADF
• 1.2 Oracle ADF Architecture
  • 1.2.1 ADF Business Components
  • 1.2.2 ADF Model
  • 1.2.3 ADF Controller
  • 1.2.4 ADF Faces Rich Client
  • 1.2.5 ADF Desktop Integration
• 1.3 Administering Oracle ADF Applications

Part II Basic Administration

2 Getting Started with Managing Oracle ADF

• 2.1 Overview of ADF Administration Tools
• 2.2 Getting Started Using Fusion Middleware Control to Manage ADF
• 2.3 Using the WebLogic Scripting Tool
• 2.4 Using the Oracle WebLogic Administration Console
• 2.5 Using the Fusion Middleware Control MBean Browsers

3 Monitoring and Configuring ADF Applications Using Fusion Middleware Control

• 3.1 Introduction to ADF Application Monitoring and Configuration
• 3.2 Monitoring Performance Using Enterprise Manager Fusion Middleware Control
  • 3.2.1 Understanding the Home Page
  • 3.2.2 Finding Version Information of ADF Runtime JARs
  • 3.2.3 Viewing Application Performance
  • 3.2.4 Viewing Application Module Pool Performance
  • 3.2.5 Viewing ADF Task Flow Performance
• 3.3 Configuring Application Properties Using Fusion Middleware Control
  • 3.3.1 Modifying ADF Business Components Parameters
  • 3.3.2 Modifying Connection Configurations
• 3.4 Configuring Application Properties Using the MBean Browser
  • 3.4.1 Modifying ADF Application Configurations Using MBeans
  • 3.4.2 Modifying ADF Connections Using MBeans
  • 3.4.3 Modifying ADF Business Components Configurations Using MBeans
  • 3.4.4 Modifying MDS Configuration Using MBeans
  • 3.4.5 Modifying Active Data Service Configuration Using MBeans
• 3.5 Editing Credentials Deployed with the Application

4 Deploying ADF Applications

• 4.1 Introduction to Deploying ADF Applications
• 4.2 Preparing the Standalone Application Server for Deployment
  • 4.2.1 Installing the ADF Runtime to the Application Server Installation
  • 4.2.2 Installing Relevant Patches
  • 4.2.3 Creating and Extending Oracle WebLogic Server Domains
  • 4.2.4 Creating a JDBC Data Source for Oracle WebLogic Server
• 4.3 Deploying Using Oracle Enterprise Manager Fusion Middleware Control
• 4.4 Deploying Using Scripting Commands
• 4.5 Deploying Using Scripts and Ant
• 4.6 Deploying Using the Application Server Administration Tool
• 4.7 Deploying Using Oracle Java Cloud Service

5 Administering ADF Desktop Integration

• 5.1 Installing and Upgrading ADF Desktop Integration
  • 5.1.1 Prerequisites for Installing ADF Desktop Integration Add-in
  • 5.1.2 Configuring the End User's Microsoft Excel to work with ADF Desktop Integration
  • 5.1.3 How to Install the ADF Desktop Integration Add-in From a Web Server
  • 5.1.4 How to Upgrade the ADF Desktop Integration Add-in
  • 5.1.5 How to Run ADF Desktop Integration Installer from Command Line
• 5.2 ADF Desktop Integration Logs
• 5.3 Security in ADF Desktop Integration
  • 5.3.1 End User Authentication
  • 5.3.2 What You May Need to Know About Configuring Security in a Fusion Web Application
  • 5.3.3 What You May Need to Know About Resource Grants for Web Pages
• 5.4 Verifying the Client Version of ADF Desktop Integration
  • 5.4.1 How to Disable the Install Option on the Client-Server Version Check Dialog
• 5.5 Verifying Integrated Excel Workbook Metadata
  • 5.5.1 How to Disable the Metadata Tamper-Check in the Fusion Web Application
• 5.6 Common ADF Desktop Integration Error Messages and Problems

6 Diagnostic Tools

• 6.1 Introduction to Monitoring and Diagnostic Tools
• 6.2 Click History
  • 6.2.1 How to Obtain Click History
  • 6.2.2 How to Enable Click History for an Application
  • 6.2.3 How to Enable and Disable Click History in WebLogic Server
  • 6.2.4 How to Adjust Click History Capacity
  • 6.2.5 How to Dump Click History Data Explicitly
  • 6.2.6 How to Interpret Click History Records
  • 6.2.7 How to Get Click History DMS Metrics
• 6.3 ADF Logs
• 6.4 Diagnosing Problems using the Diagnostic Framework
• 6.5 Finding ADF Runtime Version Information
  • 6.5.1 How to Find Version Information by Starting the Application
  • 6.5.2 How to Find Version Information by Using Shell Scripts in Offline Mode
  • 6.5.3 How to Find Version Information by Using the WLST Scripting Console
  • 6.5.4 How to Find Version Information Using Fusion Middleware Control
  • 6.5.5 How to Find Version Information by Inspecting Diagnostic Dump Files
• 6.6 Troubleshooting Oracle ADF for High Availability

7 Working with WLST Commands for ADF Applications

• 7.1 Overview of Custom WSLT Commands for Oracle ADF
• 7.2 Using ADF-Specific WLST Commands

Appendices

A Configuring GlassFish Server

• A.1 About Configuring GlassFish
• A.2 Obtaining GlassFish Server and Oracle ADF Runtime
  • A.2.1 Obtaining GlassFish Server
  • A.2.2 Obtaining Oracle ADF Runtime
• A.3 Configuring GlassFish with ADF Runtime Libraries
  • A.3.1 Installing ADF Share Libraries Manually
• A.4 Additional Configuration Tasks
  • A.4.1 Using the GlassFish Administration Console
  • A.4.2 Creating a Datasource for GlassFish
  • A.4.3 Configuring the JVM Cache
• A.5 Deploying an ADF Application to GlassFish

B ADF Runtime Libraries

• B.1 Using JDeveloper to Find the ADF Runtime Library
• B.2 adf.oracle.domain.webapp.war Library
• B.3 adf.oracle.domain.ear Library
• B.4 adf.desktopintegration.war Library
• B.5 adf.desktopintegration.model.ear Library
• B.6 System Classpath

C Audit Reference for Oracle Application Development Framework

• C.1 About Custom and Standard Audit Reports
• C.2 Attributes of ADF Audit Events
• C.3 Audit Events in Oracle ADF View
• C.4 Audit Events in Oracle ADF Business Components
• C.5 Audit Events in Oracle ADF Model
• C.6 Audit Events in Oracle ADF Controller
• C.7 Audit Events in Jedi