Customer Reviews

Oracle Fusion Developer Guide: Building Rich Internet Applications with Oracle ADF Business Components and Oracle ADF Faces (Oracle Press)

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Frank is an expert on JDEV, he runs a great blog and is also an Ace on the Oracle Forums. Having known all this, I expected his book on JDEV to be awesome! The book falls short, there is not enough of the code samples to try out the material in JDev and see how the items actually work. The book covers advanced topics but not in enough detail to be carried out in real world code. The jump from JDev 10G to 11G is a huge leap, that requires a lot of examples and material to help the programmer out, this book is not it.

If author/publisher would make the Workspaces available to the reader, one might be able to actually see how all the code is wired together and make use of the material. Without the code samples to work with the book is pretty much a waste of money. There is no more information in this book as there is in the Oracle docs that are free from the oracle site.

Sorry but this book is not recommended.

Recently read this book and it is packed with information. Its not a tutorial on how to create complete application but instead it contains hundreds of nuggets on how to create individual functionalities for ADF. Most of the theory is also explained well and points to references to Dev Guide as well. Its best to read Fusion Dev Guide before reading this one.

This book is a great reference manual to get you started on your way. I found some of the examples lacking but was at least able to get started in the right direction for a solution.

ADF is a bit more difficult to learn than JSF 2, and seems to be mostly used inside of Oracle. There is far less help on the net with ADF and the JDeveloper environment is a constant changing target so some things in the book are not up to date. The book does well to teach though, the 3 stars is more about ADF itself and not the book and it's contents.

There is a much nicer and easier to use framework called Wicket for java developers. Having worked with JSF 1/2, ADF, Struts, Spring MVC, Velocity and JSP pages with hybrid MVC frameworks, Wicket is by far much better than all of them. It's much easier to use, allows the actual web design to be done by designers, and the dynamic content to be added by developers. It takes into account scalability, clustering, security, possible attacks like SQL injection and javascript injection and more. Give it a look see if you're considering any of the other Java web frameworks.