About UIX Look and Feels

ADF UIX supports the following look and feel implementations, which are provided for you to use "as is" in your applications, without customization:

Oracle Browser Look and Feel (BLAF) - This implements a look and feel that conforms to Oracle's UI standards for applications.
Minimal Look and Feel (MLAF) - This is an alternate look and feel to BLAF that uses smaller HTML content and less images. This can result in faster page loading times as the number of HTTP requests is reduced.

Note: We recommend that you do not extend BLAF or MLAF because the UI designs of these look and feels may change based on Oracle's own corporate UI requirements.

UIX also provides the following parent look and feel implementations, which you can use to provide custom look and feels:

Base Look and Feel - This is the root look and feel. All look and feels provided by UIX are extended from this Base Look and Feel.
Simple Look and Feel (SLAF) - This is an extension of the Base Look and Feel that exposes even more customization capabilities than the Base Look and Feel.

While the Base Look And Feel attempts to keep the number of images used to a minimum, the Simple Look And Feel exposes a richer set of customizable icons for creating more highly customized versions of components such as the tabBar, globalHeader, and contentContainer.

We recommend that you do not use SLAF or Base Look and Feel directly, but create your custom look and feels by extending either SLAF or Base Look and Feel. See About Look and Feel Customization for more information about providing custom look and feels for your applications.

Use the look-and-feel configuration property in the UIX configuration file (uix-config.xml) to specify the preferred look and feel for an application. For example:

<look-and-feel>oracle</look-and-feel>

<look-and-feel>minimal</look-and-feel>

or a custom look and feel,

<look-and-feel>mycompany</look-and-feel>