Advanced Features of ADF - Oracle ADF 11gR2 Development Beginner's Guide - page 278

Deployments
This secion is used to deploy the EAR or WAR ile to the server. The enire EAR ile, WAR ile,
and also the shared library deployed to the server are listed in this secion. You can install,
update, and delete the archives and libraries from the deployment console, as shown in the
following screenshot:
The Security realm
The Security realm is the place where security-related seings are conigured for the
applicaion. The default realm called myrealm will have the providers, key store, roles, policies,
authenicaion, authorizaion, and credenial mapping conigured for the applicaion.
Data sources
The data source secion is important in coniguring the database connecion informaion and
maintaining the connecion pool as well. The Java Database Connecivity ( JDBC ) data source is
listed in this secion, and the applicaion will look up the Java Naming and Directory Interface
( JNDI ) tree and request a database connecion from the data source. The data source should
exactly match the data source used for the applicaion. Some common coniguraions for the
data source are URL, driver class, and JNDI name, among others.