Consolidated Framework

Oracle ADF has simplified Java development by evolving proven Oracle technologies such as Business Components for Java, UIX, and JClient to a new level of productivity and flexibility. These technologies have been consolidated into one comprehensive and powerful J2EE framework, with a consistent user interface for application development. If you are currently using these technologies, you will be able to seamlessly take your applications forward.

The ADF Business Components and ADF JClient technologies have been internally refactored to cleanly separate the business services features from the data binding features. This means that JSP and UIX XML pages, as well as Swing/JClient panels, now all share a common data binding technology in the ADF Model layer, which can work consistently against back-end business services of all kinds.

You get a new, consistent approach to visual data binding and new flexibility to accommodate services implemented as ADF application modules, custom JavaBeans, EJBs, and web services. These improvements have been implemented with upward compatibility in mind, so that applications built using existing, production versions of BC4J, UIX, and JClient just open and run in JDeveloper 10g on top of the enhanced Oracle ADF framework.