Oracle ADF Core Functionality Now Available for Free – Presenting Oracle ADF Essentials by Shay Shmeltzer.
From the post:
We are happy to announce the new Oracle ADF Essentials – a free to develop and deploy version of the core technologies at the base of Oracle ADF – Oracle’s strategic development framework that was used, among other things, to build the new generation of the enterprise Oracle Fusion Applications.
This release is aligned with the new Oracle JDeveloper 11.1.2.3 version that we released today.
Oracle ADF Essentials enables developers to use the following free:
- Oracle ADF Faces Rich Client components –over 150 JSF 2.0 components that include extensive charting and data visualization components, supports skinning, internalization, accessibility and touch gestures and providing advanced Ajax, windowing, drag and drop and other UI capabilities in a declarative way.
- Oracle ADF Controller – an extension on top of the JSF controller providing complete process flow definition and enabling advanced reusability of flows inside page’s regions.
- Oracle ADF Binding – a declarative way to bind various business services to JSF user interfaces eliminating tedious managed-beans coding.
- Oracle ADF Business Components – a declarative layer for building Java based business services on top of relational databases.
The lesson here is to give away tools for people to write the interfaces to products you are interested in selling. Particularly if interfaces aren’t in your product line.
Like applying topic maps to relational database content. Just as an example.
I first saw this at DZone.