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Me and my ADF

--Just a random set of opinions read no further if you are looking for technical info. Ok so I have been working with ADF for 8 months now (have worked with SOA suite before) and here are a couple of rants and findings: Development speed etc: The initial learning curve in VERY steep. Get help - we had an adf expert help us out - invaluable. Get the adf source code - it will help you. Like any framework you need to write a bit of framework extension code It is NOT just drag and drop dev if you want anything custom. Try to get things right from the start or you will end up redoing a lot and it is not very "refactoring" friendly. Forms devs will have to get a LOT of training to use this. (they will have to learn java and ADF unless you run a sweat shop dev process) Hire a very very compentant java dev before switching over from forms. Having a lot of logic in pl\sql with this framework may not be a bad thing. Try to do as little custom stuff as possible Once you h...