Oracle Application Development Framework is a Java-based framework designed for developing enterprise applications with an emphasis on ease of integration with other Oracle products, leveraging a database-centric model, and supporting rapid deployment.
| Product | Mindshare (%) |
|---|---|
| Oracle Application Development Framework | 6.8% |
| Spring Boot | 28.0% |
| Jakarta EE | 16.9% |
| Other | 48.300000000000004% |
| Company Size | Count |
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| Small Business | 5 |
| Midsize Enterprise | 2 |
| Large Enterprise | 1 |
| Company Size | Count |
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| Small Business | 24 |
| Midsize Enterprise | 14 |
| Large Enterprise | 25 |
Oracle Application Development Framework provides an efficient way to build enterprise web applications, particularly for ERP systems. It features a comprehensive model–view–controller pattern and supports JavaServer Faces, allowing for fast deployment and efficient Java coding. Integration with Oracle Cloud enhances security with features such as single sign-on. Despite its benefits, performance enhancements are needed to address slowness and resource consumption. Users also request more UI components, a modernized interface, and improved integration particularly for the Middle East.
What are the key features of Oracle Application Development Framework?In industries like banking, municipal government, and health insurance, Oracle Application Development Framework facilitates the creation of tailored web applications aligned with complex business requirements. This framework is particularly favored for developing enterprise resource planning systems, with organizations choosing among different versions according to specific project needs and often employing Oracle JDeveloper for setup.
Oracle Application Development Framework was previously known as Oracle ADF.
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| Author info | Rating | Review Summary |
|---|---|---|
| ERP Manager | Implementation Head at Tharsol | 4.5 | I used Oracle ADF for eight years, valuing its Java coding. However, JDeveloper is slow, and Oracle ceased ADF support in 2020, as users migrated to APEX. I now recommend APEX instead. |
| Assistant Manager at cloudsoftjo | 2.5 | Oracle ADF offers rapid development and security, but I find it a heavy framework with rendering and resource issues, nearing end-of-life. I recommend newer technologies like Angular, rating it 5/10. |
| Senior Java EE & Oracle Fusion Middleware Dev at Microsystems | 4.0 | After five years, I value its excellent single sign-on, stability, and scalability. Setup is straightforward, support good. However, it needs a dependable on-premises front-end for big projects and specialized staff. I rate it 8/10. |
| Senior Associate at a tech vendor with 10,001+ employees | 3.5 | I find this solution enables rapid application development, which is beneficial. However, the UI is very slow and not up to market standard. Performance, stability, and technical support need significant improvement. I rate it 7/10. |
| Java Developer at a tech vendor with 51-200 employees | 3.0 | I use this database-centric solution for enterprise web apps, finding its MVC easy, but performance and scalability become issues as it grows. The UI also feels outdated. Setup is easy, but I rate it 6/10 overall. |
| Java/ Senior Oracle ADF Developer at Al-Bayanat Al-Raqamiah | 4.0 | As a solution provider, I use Oracle ADF for clients, valuing its powerful business components, stability, and scalability. While initial setup is complex and more components are needed, I recommend this product, rating it eight out of ten. |
| Director at a tech services company with 11-50 employees | 3.5 | We've used Oracle ADF for 15 years. It integrates well and is scalable, but its high cost, lack of open-source nature, and performance issues are leading us to transition to Spring Boot. |
| CIO at Prince Mohammad University | 5.0 | I rate Oracle ADF 10/10. It offers fast deployment and ease of use, with great support. Though regional relevance and third-party integration could improve, Oracle's tech leadership makes it the best choice. |
| Assistant Manager at cloudsoftjo | 3.0 | I value this solution's business components and easy setup. However, its performance is very slow, especially with many users, and the low-code framework can be buggy. Support is average. I rate it 6/10. |
The licensing for products such as Oracle's ERP are very costly in Pakistan, so my company's upper management recommended that we develop our own custom ERP system. At the time, we had two choices, one of them being Oracle ADF, and our management eventually decided that we should use ADF.
For this work, I am currently using the latest version of ADF with Database 19C, and before developing our applications in ADF, we also have to install Oracle JDeveloper.
The best part of Oracle ADF is being able to easily write code in Java with JavaBean files. Playing around with Java within ADF is a breeze compared to Oracle's other tools where we might not even have the option to code in Java in the first place.
I use JDeveloper along with ADF and, unfortunately, JDeveloper is a very slow tool. It takes a lot of time to accomplish things with it during both development and deployment. I hope that Oracle will improve JDeveloper to make it run faster.
Another downside with ADF is that, right now, no one is using it because everyone has moved to Oracle's APEX technology. As a result of this move, Oracle stopped providing support for ADF since 2020.
I have been using Oracle Application Development Framework for about eight years now.
One big drawback in terms of stability is that Oracle is no longer providing support for ADF, ever since they launched Oracle APEX. Most of the companies in Pakistan and South Asian countries are now trying to migrate from ADF to APEX.
Two years ago, I would have said ADF is a scalable product because it lets users develop more in less time than usual. However, nowadays not many people are using it because they have found Oracle APEX to be a much faster technology.
In 2020, I contacted one of their support personnel because I had a query related to different pages in ADF, and we spoke together two or three times. The help I received was good.
Positive
The setup is easy, but it can be a time-consuming process depending on your hardware (RAM, etc.), the OS you are using, and what you are including in the installation. On my side, it took about 45 minutes.
Oracle ADF is an expensive product. I don't know the actual figures, but our licensing costs for the year 2020, for example, were very high.
My advice to anyone who intends to use ADF for the first time is that you must make sure that you have powerful enough hardware in order to run everything smoothly, especially when it comes to JDeveloper. If your hardware is adequate, you can get by without a problem in terms of speed, but be advised that it can use a lot of resources.
However, even though ADF is a good product with great scalability that has really helped me out in hard times since 2014, I would ultimately recommend that new users look toward Oracle APEX instead of ADF.
I would rate Oracle Application Development Framework a nine out of ten.
We use Oracle Application Development Framework mainly for ERP applications.
The most valuable feature of the Oracle Application Development Framework is the rapid development and the security it provides.
Oracle Application Development Framework is set to go out of support over the next three years but they should provide support for the solution for the longer term. Additionally, there needs to be more overall optimization and specifically in webpage rendering. The solution uses a lot of resources, and in order for them to move forward, they would have to create a smaller resource impact.
I have been using Oracle Application Development Framework for approximately 10 years.
Oracle Application Development Framework is a stable solution
The scalability of the Oracle Application Development Framework is good, it scales well.
There can be hundreds of users using this solution. In some project, there has been 100 to 500 users using it.
The initial setup of the Oracle Application Development Framework difficulty depends on the use case. For example, it can be straightforward for small applications but if you need high availability, you need to configure a cluster and many other aspects.
For a small application deployment, the initial setup can take approximately five minutes.
The solution has an annual licensing cost and there are only standard fees. If you want Oracle support this is charged extra on top of the licensing fees.
I prefer to tell developers to bring in the new technology rather than use Oracle Application Development Framework, such as TypeScript or Angular. This will allow client-side scripting in the backend by using solutions, such as Spring Framework.
Oracle Application Development Framework has some minor drawbacks, especially in rendering with pages and bugs in business components. It's not a typical framework, it's a very heavy framework.
Over the next two years or three years, the major developers will shift from Oracle Application Development Framework to new client-type technology. There is a newer solution called Oracle JET, but it has no push from Oracle. Most likely they have to move to Angular, TypeScript, or React with the backend being Spring Framework or J2EE Framework.
I rate Oracle Application Development Framework a five out of ten.
The single sign-on features applied to Oracle Cloud is a valuable feature. All parts of this application are compatible with single sign-on, where you have a security feature that is very good in Oracle Cloud.
It needs to be the same or much better than Oracle SOA and Oracle PPM on-premises.
You need to have Oracle ADF on-premises to build a big project. You need to have a dependable front-end application.
I've been using this solution for five years.
It is deployed both on public and private cloud environments.
It is very stable because it is a cloud solution. I can promise that you won't face many major issues.
Because it is a cloud solution, it's very scalable. This is the main purpose of a cloud solution.
I would rate Oracle's technical support at eight on a scale from one to ten.
Positive
Mainly, the setup is straightforward, and the deployment took a few days. Also, the Oracle documentation is very good regarding the cloud.
We had an in-house integrator who deployed the solution.
We have yearly licensing costs.
The technology in Oracle Service Bus is very good. You need to have good staff because this technology is new and needs very specialized staff to work on it.
On a scale from one to ten, I would rate it at eight.
Our customers are in the UAE and I'm the technical lead at a health insurance company.
The solution enables us to create objects that allow us to develop pages and applications very rapidly.
The UI is very slow when compared to other similar frameworks, and it's not up to market standard. I'd like to be able to achieve more implementation in terms of UI and in terms of application loading. They need to focus on application model objects to reduce the object phase so that it loads when the application is loading. I hope that in the next release things will improve because we sometimes experience performance issues.
I've been using this solution for five years.
The solution is very stable but stability needs to be improved when it's taking views and loading on the screen. Application models sometimes come up with errors.
If you add a more robust infrastructure then scalability is good. If you don't add anything more than web logic you might have problems.
The technical support should be improved. It's not as good as you get from other solutions. We don't get responses in a timely fashion and we end up doing workarounds to solve issues.
Neutral
The initial setup is straightforward.
I rate the solution seven out of 10.
It's mainly used for building enterprise web applications.
It's database-centric, and it's seemingly easy to use the model–view–controller pattern that's built-in.
It's a full-stack solution, so there is also the possibility to build complex UIs using JavaServer Faces and its components.
The model layer could be improved for performance because once that part gets bloated, the performance is lacking. So, there is room for performance optimization.
On the View Controller part, the UI components could be improved because the look and feel is very outdated.
I've been using it for about five to six years.
It's stable.
That's where I have issues with it. It's said that it's scalable, but I have found that it's a bit lacking in that department. Once it gets too big, the performance goes significantly down.
My team, consisting of 10 to 12 developers, uses this application framework. It's mostly used in Europe on projects in the public sector.
I haven't interacted with them, but there are forums. There are specialists who have blog posts regarding certain issues, but I haven't written directly to their support.
It's fairly easy. There is a guideline for it. It takes from a couple of seconds to one or two minutes depending on the size of the application.
To anyone evaluating or planning to use this solution, I would advise grasping the idea that is a database-centric framework. You'll have to work down to up from the database layer. You have to know how the components are configured and go through the whole learning path.
I would rate it a six out of ten.
We are a solution provider and we use Oracle ADF to develop projects for our clients. Depending on the project, we use different versions.
Some examples of the clients we have are banking institutions and municipal government.
The power of Oracle ADF is in the business components.
Oracle ADF needs more components and the layout can be improved.
In the future, I would like to have the capability of viewing two objects in the same table.
I have been using Oracle ADF for four years.
My impression is that it's a stable product. We are using it on a daily basis.
Scalability is fine and we haven't had any issues. Our team has about 10 people who are using it.
We have been in contact with technical support and they are good.
I did not use another Java framework prior to this one, although I am trying to learn other technology now. I am working on Spring Boot.
The initial setup is complex, although it can be done with one person.
In my company, we work in PaaS, which is why Oracle ADP is based in the cloud.
I deployed it myself in one of our projects and it took about an hour.
My advice for anybody who is implementing Oracle ADF is to read and study all of the material that is available. This is a product that I recommend.
I would rate this solution an eight out of ten.
We develop software applications using this Java framework.
The most valuable feature is the ease of integration with other Oracle products.
The application needs to be more lightweight and the performance improved.
This is not an open-source solution.
The price should be reduced.
We have been using Oracle ADF for 15 years.
This is a stable solution.
The scalability is really good. We are operating in a telecom environment and we have about 23 million subscribers.
The support from Oracle, as well as the community, is good. When you ask a question you receive answers or comments to it.
We did not use another Java framework prior to Oracle ADP, but we are probably moving to Spring Boot because we want to switch to a microservices architecture. Spring Boot has better performance and we are interested in moving to an open-source platform.
It will take about a year to make the transition. It will happen in phases, where some applications will be on ADF, whereas others will be on Spring Boot.
Oracle products including ADF are expensive. We use a lot of Oracle products and in total, we pay about £5 million ($6.1 million USD) per year.
The suitability of Oracle ADP depends on the application, requirements, and target.
I would rate this solution a seven out of ten.
There are several valuable features. First is the fast deployment. Also the ease of use. It's easy to teach it to the programmers, especially regarding how to capture the technology and how to enhance it when you're talking about the integration with other software.
The product could be improved with more relevance to the region. We are in the Middle East. Some technologies are not applicable here, especially when we talk about complex integration like with the central bank or government APIs and so on.
Also, in future releases, I'd like to see them integrate voice recognition and machine learning - for the AI to be a fundamental component in the development kit.
I have been using Oracle Application Development Framework for about 15 years.
It is stable, but again, integration is with two parties. So Oracle can mature their products, but on the other side, the third-party software needs to mature enough to integrate and use that stability in their performance. We have some problems with Oracle relative to third parties. Like in one project, there were some loopholes for hackers to penetrate through our main application.
In terms of scalability, as it matures new releases are more scalable.
Usually, it is my technical team that contacts support. Oracle support is great. One of the best that I've seen.
I have not used a different solution in the payment gateway. There are different STKs. Banner has its own STKs, especially for the portal and so on. So depending on the application of the technology provider, they provide their own framework for developing their own software. Again, going back to the integration component.
Oracle Application Development Framework has fast deployment. Depending on the application complexity you're talking between weeks and months.
Depending on the complexity, most likely we will be using some vendor assistance, or consultants, to help us in maneuvering the application. Like integrating between Oracle and Banner. These are two systems that both use the same database but have different applications. The companies do have some standards when we integrate these applications but I need to refer back to the technology owner for understanding the parameters of integration.
Just begin by contacting Oracle. It's hard to find the right place to contact because of a lack of advertisement for their tools and user groups. Last year I was in Manchester for an Oracle conference and I was surprised to know that there are so many tools available on the web. So if clients are going to search in Oracle, they may not find it. There is a lack of promotion from the Oracle side for those tools.
I chose Oracle because they have abundant money and they're technology leaders. They're investing in developing and enhancing their framework. Relying on Oracle will be a cornerstone. Third parties will follow.
I've seen IBM take a back seat here. I've seen Microsoft and SAP and others are taking secondary roles in evolving their application especially for scalability and integrability.
Oracle is the best - I give it a ten out of ten.
The most valuable features of this solution are the business components.
This is a good framework that is very smooth.
It is easy to deploy your application.
The performance of this solution needs to be improved because it is very slow.
There should be a light-weight version of this solution ported to Apache Tomcat.
The stability is very good. When you have a good service with enough memory and enough CPU cores then you have good performance.
When you have a lot of users, perhaps three or four hundred, then it becomes very slow.
The technical support escalates issues in a sequence. When you first contact them the people are not very experienced, and it is like they are reading from a handbook. They suggest one step, then another, and so one. If you have a larger problem then it takes a lot of time to get answers from Oracle.
I would not say that the support is bad, nor would I say that it is very good. It is average.
The initial setup of this solution is very easy.
I performed the deployment myself.
The cost of this solution is approximately $47,000 USD per site.
Oracle technology moves very fast, and many of the Oracle Forms developers will be moving to the Spring Framework.
My advice to anybody who is implementing this solution is to get their information from the consultants who work with it, and not just from the internet.
I have a lot of Oracle ADF experience and I have had a lot of bugs. When you have a low-code framework like this one, a wizzard, and a drag-and-drop interface, it becomes buggy. That's the major problem.
I would rate this solution a six out of ten.
