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The Idea:
Unified Remote Data Provider for ADF
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Application
development of today requires advanced frameworks that enable to create rich
UI applications and be free in working with remote databases through
Internet.
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Let's see how these
two demands can be fulfilled for the Oracle Application Development
Framework.
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Here are the facts
that already exist today:
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- ADF is a basis
framework, which accumulates all aspects of application development; it
includes ADF Swing which allows to create rich User Interface applications
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- Oracle surveys
show that high percentage of business applications are developed as rich
desktop-style applications with ADF and Swing
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- web services have
become a standard for program communications over Internet
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These facts have
led to the idea:
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To create the web
service that performs data source operations for ADF in remote database.
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ADF should access
this web service in the lowest model level, so that this routing would be
transparent for the upper levels of framework
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As the benefits we
expect:
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- ADF model layer
gets unified interface for working with remote data providers
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- ADF upper layers –
including ADF Swing - inherit remotability from the model layer
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So, we get both
demands fulfilled – ADF together with web service data source allow to build
rich UI Swing applications accessing remote databases through Internet.
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ADF model layer gets
unified interface for working with remote
data providers