What is OAF

What is OAF?

  OAF is a framework developed by oracle corporation for application development within the oracle EBS(e-Business Suite).

  Oracle Application Framework (OAF) provides visual and declarative approaches to Java EE development.

 The OA framework is also available to customers for personalization’s, customizations and custom-application development.

Components of OAF 

• BC4J(Business Component for Java):-

           Java business components for representing business logic.

•  UIX(User Interface Xml):-

Java components for representing UI.

•  OA Extension:–

 Design time tool to define declarative data in JDeveloper.

 Data resides in Metadata Repository (MDS) or XMLfiles in

 the file system.

• OC4J(Oracle Component for Java):–

The Java Virtual Machine, for running from  JDeveloper.

• AOL/J:-

Applications authentication, authorization and Java services

• OA Framework:-

Programmatic ‘glue’ which integrates these technologies.

Characteristics of OAF

•  Declarative and Rapid application development
•   Consistent and Compelling UI
•   Built-in durable Personalization
•   Extensible UI and business logic
•   J2EE based, Java and XML
•   Based on MVC architecture.