Getting Started with ADF - Oracle ADF 11gR2 Development Beginner's Guide - page 29

Desktop Application
ADF Swing

Browser Based Application

View

ADF DI JSP JSF ADF Faces

M
D
S

Struts

ADF Task Flows Controller

ADF Bindings

Model

Business
Services

Java Web Services EJB ADF BC

Data
Services

DB XML WS

Creating a simple application in ADF

Till now we have been focusing on the architecture; now let us see how ADF development
is carried out in a typical web applicaion development environment.

ADF development practice
ADF web applicaion development is classiied into two secions—the Business Service
development and the UI development. Both these secions can be developed independently,
but the development of either of the secions is followed by the development of the other.

The following is a brief descripion of the two secions:

Business Service development : This secion includes the development of
objects in the business service layer, which sits on top of the data source.
Most of the development is declaraive to help the developer concentrate
more on the business logic.
UI development : The development of UI pages along with task low creaion
for reusability comprises the UI phase. The UI development makes use of rich
UI components to create a modern, atracive user interface. The designing of
the page involves a drag-and-drop approach for adding and customizing the
components using the property inspector.