Preface

This book contains a wealth of resources covering Oracle's JDeveloper 11g release and the Application Development Framework (ADF) and how these technologies can be used for the design, construction, testing, and optimizing of Fusion web applications. Being vast and complex technologies, an attempt has been made to cover a wide range of topics related specifically to Fusion web applications development with ADF, utilizing the complete ADF stack. These topics are presented in the form of recipes, many of them derived from the author's working experience covering real world use cases. The topics include, but are not limited to, foundational recipes related to laying out the project groundwork, recipes related to the ADF business components, recipes related to ViewController, recipes related to security, optimization and so on.

In the maze of information related to Fusion web applications development with ADF, it is the author's hope that aspiring ADF developers will find in this book some of the information they are looking for. So lift up your sleeves, put on your ADF chef's hat, pick up a recipe or two, and let's start cooking!