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OOW14 summary: Oracle ADF

Being an ADF developer, off course a lot of my focus and attention went to the ADF related sessions. I left OOW with a mixed feeling about the ADF sessions. On the downside I felt there was not a lot of attention for ADF during the OOW conference. You see ADF or ADF related features during almost all the presentations, whether it is the Cloud, SOA Suite and Service Bus or MAF, but not a lot on ADF itself. Then again this might be a good thing, meaning the framework being more stable and reliable.
However, the upside of the conference for me personally still is the User Group session on the Sunday, thanks to the ODTUG user group and the ADF EMG community there was a whole Sunday full of nice ADF presentation, I enjoyed all of them, a great day!

ALTA UI
One of the key ADF features at Open World was the release of the new ALTA UI, which can be viewed upon as a Simplified UI 2.0, if you want (also see my blog about the UX event). It is not just a skin, but a way of creating ADF applications. Follow the patterns, use the building blocks and create not only a functional, but also a good looking application with a good user experience.

Diagrams for ADF
A presentation done by Duncan Mill and Jairam Ramanathan about the new DVT component to create diagrams in ADF. This is not just a ready to use DVT, that can work for you in some situations. This is actually a framework you can use to create the exact diagram you need for your use case at that time. This will result in a SVG in the HTML output, which means there is native browser support and the user can actually use default functionality like zooming & panning.
Duncan wrote a series containing over 10 articles, which included the necessary steps on how to get yourself familiar with the diagrams and how to use this. A leap forward in the visualization tools within ADF, maybe we will get to see more of this in the framework?
 
High Availability and ADF
Jobinesh had a great session on High Availability (HA) support within ADF. If you want to run ADF on HA, the framework does not do all the work for you, you have to help it a little bit.
Look up his presentation to read up on how to ensure the correct working of failover and data replication, but also for some great code guidelines on how to program MBeans, TaskFlows and more within a HA environment. There is no need for me to repeat all these steps he worked out for you so well.

DVT within ADF
In this session the Data Visualization Tools (DVT) team showed some cool new features from the current (12.1.3) as well as the upcoming release. They are not ADF only, because almost all of them are also available within the MAF framework. The layout and animation of all the DVTs are now responsive and there has been a great performance improvement in all of them. Within the thematic map it is now possible to provide your custom map.
In the upcoming release the there will be a nice cool feature to mashup DVTs. Meaning you can switch between different DVTs without losing the state/context of the data.

Maven support
Since the release of ADF 12c, there is now support in JDeveloper for Maven. Which can be of great use in your Continuous Integration and/or Continuous Deployment process. JDeveloper understands how to work with the pom file and everything you need to do to get started with maven and your project you can do from within JDeveloper.

ADF EMG XML Data Control
Last but not least some shameless self plug. If you do anything with XML within ADF, whether it is just to show data on an UI or to manipulate it. Make sure you have a look at the XML Data Control. The 1.0 version is out and it can saves you lots of time , headaches and lines of code in Java.

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