The following section describes new and changed features that pertain to the creation of ADF skins (also known as themes) in this release, and provides pointers to additional sources of information.
Release 12c (12.2.1) includes the following new and changed features for the creation of ADF skins:
Revised About Skinning a Web Application to discuss the new Alta skin family delivered as a part of the new Oracle Alta UI system. For more information about the Oracle Alta UI system, see http://www.oracle.com/webfolder/ux/middleware/alta/index.html.
Added Working with the Theme Editor to describe how you set up and use the Theme Editor that was introduced in this release. The Theme Editor provides a user-friendly interface to create themes that change the appearance of the most frequently-styled elements of an application. Users do not require technical knowledge of CSS or ADF Faces components to use the Theme Editor.
Revised Properties in the ADF Skinning Framework and Configuring a Style Class for a Specific Instance of a Component to clarify that ADF skin properties (for example, -tr-open-animation-duration) customize the rendering of a component throughout an application and cannot be used in style classes to change the appearance of specific instances of a component.
Revised ADF Skins Provided by Oracle ADF to describe the Alta skin and remove the deprecated Fusion and Fusion Simple families of ADF skin.
For other changes made to the Oracle Application Development Framework (Oracle ADF) for this release, see the What's New page on the Oracle Technology Network at http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/developer-tools/jdev/documentation/index.html.