Welcome to your first real-life enterprise ADF application! The book you are holding in your hands is about building serious applications with Oracle Application Development Framework (ADF). You know that actual development work is only one part of a successful project, and that you also need structure, processes, and tools.

That is why this book will take an enterprise focus, following a complete project from inception to final delivery. Along the way, you will be building a proof of concept application, but you will also be setting up and using all the professional support tools you need for a real-life project.

This book will take you through the entire process of building an enterprise ADF application – from the initial idea through proof of concept, tool choice, preparation, coding support classes, building the application, testing it, customizing it, securing it, and finally deploying it.

This book is written in an easy-to-read style, following an enterprise development process through all the phases from proof of concept to initiation and setup to development and on to integration testing and deployment. Concepts are illustrated with real-world examples and the approaches and methods are explained step by step. This book is for developers in general - both web developers and developers experienced with classic 4GL tools like Oracle Forms - who wish to learn how to develop modern, user-friendly web applications in an Oracle environment. It is for novice ADF developers who wish to learn how to use JDeveloper and ADF, as well as for more experienced ADF developers who wish to improve their knowledge and understanding of ADF and how to use it effectively.