A group of Oracle ADF experts that meet on Google to collaborate on ADF best practices. This group soon becomes the "who-is-who" in ADF application development which is a good reason for you to join and participate.

Not a replacement for customer support, but a good starting point to ask questions about Oracle JDeveloper and ADF. Its a community of peers monitored by the Oracle JDeveloper PM team that helps each other with every day coding issues and questions and answers around the product. Join and see how quickly you develop from asking to answering questions.

One of the "holy grail" blog pages that every ADF developer should have a bookmark for. Steve explains coding challenges by example, providing excellent insight in how the product works and how you get common tasks interated into your applications.

Data Visualization Component tag overview

DVT is a major enhancement are in ADF Faces Rich Client. This doucmentation provides you with an overview of the DVT components and how to use them.

Oracle ADF Development Essentials

The developer community provides a wealth of information through tutorials, how-to's, sample applications, and so on that help new as well as experienced developers learn how to be productive. For example, it's important for developers to be trained up on subjects such as version control/working in teams, automated unit testing, and using Ant for building projects, but the amount and complexity of information out there on these topics can be overwhelming

Steve Muench's Oracle Magazine column

ADF related articles by Steve Muench published in the Oracle Magazine.

A Rough Guide to using WLS 10.3 with ADF

Duncan Mills' blog entry about setting up WLS 10.3 for ADF in JDeveloper 11g (Boxer)  

Wiki page on OTN maintained by the ADF community. The side menu allows you to view various aspects of  ADF development, with links to documents recommended by the experts.

The official Oracle JDeveloper and ADF documentation consists of two books written for the ADF developer and the ADF Faces web developer. Improving our product documentation has been a mission since 10.1.3 and its over now. Though we easilly could call it a day, there is always room to improve, which is what the doc writers do with each iteration of the doc.

Skinning has been greatly improved in JDeveloper 11. Have a look at the skin selector documentation to leran about the options available to skin individual UI components.

ADF Faces RC provides a wealth of Ajax enabled JavaServer Faces components. This page, which is maintained by the development team itself, provides you best of breed information about how to use the individual tag elements.

The ADF Faces component demo shows all the ADF Faces RC components in action. You can get the complete demo sources to run from your local JDeveloper 11 installation.

ADF Faces RC JavaScript docs

Using JavaScript should be more of an exception than a rule when working with ADF Faces RC cmponents. However, the client side API exists and this document contains a list of the public methods and classes to use. As a rule of thumb, avoid the use of any class or method not shown in this document because it indicates an internal implementation class that might change without further notice or, if not used properly, may even break framework functionality.

ADF Functional Patterns

Documents that describe and demonstrate Functional Patterns and Best Practices for specific tasks in development when utilizing ADF within JDeveloper. New Functional Patterns and Best Practices appear on a regular basis

Steve Muench's Oracle Magazine Columns on ADF

Steve Muench frequently writea bout ADF in the Oracle Magazine. Not to read a full magazine to get the latest on Steve's ADF hints and tips, here's a link

Oracle Sample Code

Oracle Sample Code, a site where employees and Oracle Technology Network members collaboratively build and share sample applications, code snippets, skins and templates, and more. This site aims to become an almanach of developer wisdom, expressed in source code    

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