Getting Started with ADF - Oracle ADF 11gR2 Development Beginner's Guide - page 52

Now let us see what happens behind the browser when the URL is accessed:
When the irst request for the ADF page occurs, the applicaion invokes both the
ADF life cycles; they are a superset of the JSF life cycle. The JSF lifecycle will be
responsible for request processing using the FacesServlet servlet. This servlet
will filter the request that comes after the /faces/ secion of the URL.
This servlet is responsible for registering ADFBindingFilter defined in the web.
xml file. The filter will first look for the binding context in the HTTP session. If it's
not available, the binding context is created in the session.
The binding context will then look for the indexPageDef.xml file that is
associated with the index.jspx page. This page deiniion ile can be found
in the DataBindings.cpx file, which has already been loaded by adfm.xml .
The binding container is created for the page deiniion ile and the #{bindings}
EL expression is also resolved to access the created binding container.
The page then gets the data available in the binding container using the bindings.