Deploying the ADF Application - Oracle ADF 11gR2 Development Beginner's Guide - page 237

The adf-config.xml ile will hold the coniguraion informaion for the MDS
customizaion. The customization class is added to the file using the following code:
<adf-mds-config xmlns="http://xmlns.oracle.com/adf/mds/config">
<mds-config xmlns="http://xmlns.oracle.com/mds/config"
version="11.1.1.000">
<cust-config>
<match path="/">
<customization-class name="oracle.adf.share.config.UserCC"/>
</match>
</cust-config>
</mds-config>
</adf-mds-config>
Deployment descriptors
These are the iles that will have the coniguraion and deployment informaion that is
essenial to deploy an applicaion to the server. For every JEE web applicaion, we will
have a dedicated deployment descriptor to manage and maintain the way the web
applicaion runs. The common deployment descriptor for the ADF web applicaion is
web.xml , which is found under the WEB-INF folder of the applicaion.
web.xml
web.xml is the deployment descriptor that will store all the coniguraions needed to deploy
and start the applicaion in the WebLogic server. This ile will store the session imeout,
security features, and welcome iles for the web applicaion. Some of the coniguraions are:
Context iniializaion parameters : These are the values that are available at the start
of the applicaion. Someimes we use the opion available to toggle between the
logic in our applicaion. For example, javax.faces.PARTIAL_STATE_SAVING can
be set to true or false based on whether the applicaion will enable or disable
parial state saving. These parameters are deined inside the <context-param>
element under the <param-name> and <param-value> tags.