Oracle Application Development Framework Reviews

Name: Oracle Application Development Framework
Brand: Oracle
Rating: 3.9 (9 reviews)

3.9 out of 5

9 reviews
87% willing to recommend

What is Oracle Application Development Framework?

Oracle ADF is an end-to-end Java EE framework that simplifies application development by providing out-of-the-box infrastructure services and a visual and declarative development experience. Oracle ADF simplifies Java EE development by minimizing the need to write code that implements the applicationâs infrastructure allowing the developers to focus on the features of the actual application. Oracle ADF provides these infrastructure implementations as part of the framework. It also implements the Model-View-Controller design pattern and offers an integrated solution that covers all the layers of the architecture integrated with the Oracle SOA and WebCenter Portal frameworks.

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Oracle Application Development Framework is the #9 ranked solution in top Java Frameworks. PeerSpot users give Oracle Application Development Framework an average rating of 7.8 out of 10. Oracle Application Development Framework is most commonly compared to Spring Boot: Oracle Application Development Framework vs Spring Boot. Oracle Application Development Framework is popular among the large enterprise segment, accounting for 49% of users researching this solution on PeerSpot. The top industry researching this solution are professionals from a government, accounting for 11% of all views.

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Featured Oracle Application Development Framework reviews

Asad Ur Rehman

ERP Manager | Implementation Head at Tharsol

My advice to anyone who intends to use ADF for the first time is that you must make sure that you have powerful enough hardware in order to run everything smoothly, especially when it comes to JDeveloper. If your hardware is adequate, you can get by without a problem in terms of speed, but be advised that it can use a lot of resources. However, even though ADF is a good product with great scalability that has really helped me out in hard times since 2014, I would ultimately recommend that new users look toward Oracle APEX instead of ADF. I would rate Oracle Application Development Framework a nine out of ten.

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Shadi Abu Omar

Senior Java EE & Oracle Fusion Middleware Dev at Microsystems

The single sign-on features applied to Oracle Cloud is a valuable feature. All parts of this application are compatible with single sign-on, where you have a security feature that is very good in Oracle Cloud It needs to be the same or much better than Oracle SOA and Oracle PPM on-premises. You…

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Hammam Fayez

Assistant Manager at cloudsoftjo

I prefer to tell developers to bring in the new technology rather than use Oracle Application Development Framework, such as TypeScript or Angular. This will allow client-side scripting in the backend by using solutions, such as Spring Framework. Oracle Application Development Framework has some minor drawbacks, especially in rendering with pages and bugs in business components. It's not a typical framework, it's a very heavy framework. Over the next two years or three years, the major developers will shift from Oracle Application Development Framework to new client-type technology. There is a newer solution called Oracle JET, but it has no push from Oracle. Most likely they have to move to Angular, TypeScript, or React with the backend being Spring Framework or J2EE Framework. I rate Oracle Application Development Framework a five out of ten.

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Oracle Application Development Framework mindshare

As of August 2025, the mindshare of Oracle Application Development Framework in the Java Frameworks category stands at 3.9%, up from 2.2% compared to the previous year, according to calculations based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

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Valuable Features

"The best part of Oracle ADF is being able to easily write code in Java with JavaBean files."
"It's database-centric, and it's seemingly easy to use the model–view–controller pattern that's built-in."
"The most valuable feature of the Oracle Application Development Framework is the rapid development and the security it provides."

Room for Improvement

"I use JDeveloper along with ADF and, unfortunately, JDeveloper is a very slow tool. It takes a lot of time to accomplish things with it during both development and deployment. I hope that Oracle will improve JDeveloper to make it run faster."
"The model layer could be improved for performance because once that part gets bloated, the performance is lacking. So, there is room for performance optimization."
"Oracle Application Development Framework is set to go out of support over the next three years but they should provide support for the solution for the longer term. Additionally, there needs to be more overall optimization and specifically in webpage rendering. The solution uses a lot of resources, and in order for them to move forward, they would have to create a smaller resource impact."

Pricing

"Oracle ADF is an expensive product. I don't know the actual figures, but our licensing costs for the year 2020, for example, were very high."
"The solution has an annual licensing cost and there are only standard fees. If you want Oracle support this is charged extra on top of the licensing fees."
"We have yearly licensing costs."

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