About Struts and Oracle ADF

You can create Model 2 web applications that rely on the Struts controller for page navigation in JDeveloper and obtain the advantages of the Oracle Application Development Framework (Oracle ADF) in your application. When you create JSP pages or Oracle ADF UIX pages in Model 2 applications:

Your pages work with the Oracle ADF data controls to access any supported business service, including ADF Business Components
You can work with the Data Control Palette to quickly assemble databound web pages

Note: Struts is an open source framework from Apache Software Organization for building web applications. The framework integrates with standard technologies, such as Java Servlets, JavaBeans, and JavaServer Pages. For more information, see About the Struts Framework in Web Applications.

In JDeveloper, you can build databound web applications using either standard JSP pages or Oracle ADF UIX web pages. To simplify the design process for specifying Struts page flows, JDeveloper provides the Struts Page Flow Diagram with its own Component Palette. The page flows that you create are saved in the Struts configuration file (struts-config.xml) as standard Struts elements. Specifically, the elements that you create in a page flow diagram for a databound web application are data actions that prepare the data using the Oracle ADF binding context and page forwards to specify the destination of the completed action.

For descriptions of typical databound page flows that you can easily create with the Struts Page Flow Diagram and the Oracle ADF framework, see About the Page Flow in Databound Struts Applications. Each page flow is accompanied by an end-to-end procedure available in the JDeveloper Help.