Oracle JHeadstart Developer's Guide - Downloads - Oracle

1.1. Introduction into JDeveloper, ADF and JHeadstart
1.1.1. Oracle JDeveloper
To get the most out of JHeadstart, it really helps to understand more about the
underlying technologies. If you have used Oracle Designer in the past to generate Oracle
Forms aplications you probably agree that good knowledge of Oracle Forms is rather
helpful in generating more complex functionality. This also applies to JHeadstart,
understanding how technologies like ADF Data Binding, ADF Faces and JSF work, is
indispensable for generating complex applications that involve customizations to the
default generator templates used by JHeadstart. This section provides the pointers to
obtain this knowledge.
Oracle JDeveloper is the Integrated Development Environment (IDE) that allows us to
work productively. It provides a comprehensive set of integrated tools that support the
complete development lifecycle, from source control, modeling, and coding through
debugging, testing, profiling, and deploying. JDeveloper simplifies Java EE
development by providing wizards, editors, visual design tools, and deployment tools to
create high quality, standard Java EE components including applets, JavaBeans, Java
Server Faces (JSF), servlets, and Enterprise JavaBeans (EJB). JDeveloper also provides a
public Add-in API to extend and customize the development environment and
seamlessly integrate it with external products.
1.1.2. Oracle Application Development Framework (ADF)
Oracle JDeveloper on OTN. Overview, Online Demo’s, Tutorials, White Papers,
How-to’s, Feature list, and more:
http://www.oracle.com/technology/products/jdev
Oracle ADF is an end-to-end J2EE framework, fully integrated with JDeveloper that
simplifies development by providing out of the box infrastructure services and a visual
and declarative development experience. Since it supports multiple technologies you
have the choice to use the components that best fit your situation.
Oracle ADF comes with extended design time facilities. By using simple drag-and-drop
of the model components you can build page by page in a highly productive manner. For
Java Server Faces a very useful page flow modeler is included where you can draw the
logic of your controller structure. The business services can be developed with several
types of wizards (based on UML models), and several types of editors.
Altogether Oracle ADF provides a first class J2EE framework that couples high
development productivity with the flexibility to choose the components that fit your
situation best.
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