Oracle Application Development Framework

Oracle Application Development Framework, usually called Oracle ADF, is a development tool from Oracle Corporation that provides a Java framework for building enterprise applications. It offers visual and declarative approaches to Java EE development and supports rapid application development through ready-to-use design patterns and metadata-driven, visual tools. It is based on the MVC architecture and can combine models such as web services, TopLink, JavaBeans and ADF Business Components with controllers such as JavaServer Faces and ADF Task Flows. The Oracle JDeveloper environment provides its graphical tooling, and applications deploy to Java EE containers such as Oracle WebLogic and IBM WebSphere. A free edition, ADF Essentials, was introduced in September 2012.