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Different administration tools are available to manage and configure ADF applications. You can use Enterprise Manager Fusion Middleware Control, WLST commands, or Oracle WebLogic Administration Console to perform these administration tasks.
Oracle offers the following primary tools for managing your Oracle Fusion Middleware installations:
Oracle Enterprise Manager Fusion Middleware Control. See Getting Started Using Fusion Middleware Control to Manage ADF.
The Oracle Fusion Middleware command-line tools. See Using the WebLogic Scripting Tool.
Oracle WebLogic Server Administration Console. See Using the Oracle WebLogic Administration Console.
The Fusion Middleware Control MBean Browser. See Using the Fusion Middleware Control MBean Browsers.
Fusion Middleware Control is a Web browser-based, graphical user interface that you can use to monitor and administer Oracle Fusion Middleware. You can navigate to Oracle ADF pages in Fusion Middleware Control to view and configure different ADF-specific properties.
For information about navigating within Fusion Middleware Control and a description of its elements and main menus, see Navigating Within Fusion Middleware Control in the Administering Oracle Fusion Middleware.
To navigate to Oracle Application Development Framework pages in Fusion Middleware Control:
WebLogic Scripting Tool (WLST) is a command-line scripting environment that provides a set of commands for ADF applications that are specific to WebLogic Server. You can use the ADF-specific WLST commands to administer ADF applications.
WLST is used to create, manage, and monitor Oracle WebLogic Server domains. WLST is a command-line based on Jython. ADF provides a set of custom WLST commands that you can use to perform functions specifically for ADF applications.
Custom ADF-specific WLST commands can be used with Maven.
For more information about using WLST, see Using the WebLogic Scripting Tool in Understanding the WebLogic Scripting Tool and Getting Started Using the Oracle WebLogic Scripting Tool (WLST) in Administering Oracle Fusion Middleware.
For reference information about the ADF WLST commands, see Working with WLST Commands for ADF Applications.
To access the ADF-specific WLST commands:
For reference information about the ADF WLST commands, see Working with WLST Commands for ADF Applications.
Oracle WebLogic Server Administration Console provides a graphical user interface that you can use to configure, monitor, and manage the WebLogic Server instances, clusters, services, and security parameters.
You can use the Oracle WebLogic Administration Console to manage Oracle WebLogic Server domains. The console runs in a Web browser and has a graphical user interface.
For more information, see Getting Started Using Oracle WebLogic Server Administration Console in Administering Oracle Fusion Middleware.
The Fusion Middleware Control MBean Browser is an Oracle Web application that is based on JMX MBean containers. You can use the MBean Browser to view and modify the values of MBeans for an application or a WebLogic Server.
Fusion Middleware Control provides a set of MBean browsers that allow to you view the MBeans for an application or for an Oracle WebLogic Server. You can also use the MBean browser to perform monitoring and configuration tasks.
For more information, see Getting Started Using the Fusion Middleware Control MBean Browsers in Administering Oracle Fusion Middleware.