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Oracle Application Development Framework (ADF)
•A meta-framework: a wrapper for other frameworks
–JSF
–Struts
–ADF Business Components, etc.
•Meets the challenges of J2EE development
–Lots of technology choices
–No tool to integrate them
–Database connectivity is difficult (JDBC)
•Available starting in JDeveloper 10g
•Multiple development paths use same
code layers
•Based on Model-View-Controller
J2EE design pattern