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Interesting comments. I suppose we have a balancing act in terms of how One one side there are alot of people saying e.g. "Apex is easy" ", "Why Equally, we have sessions like Binding Internals, ADF Faces deep dive Furthermore, we've also try to show the full power of ADF through some Personally alot of my effort is trying to show the ease of how you Regards
> I am on my 3rd ADF 11g project. One thing I learned in my 2 years with
> When I started ADF, I felt like a complete idiot. Add to that lack of
> In my view ADF 11g is a complete paradigm shift. Its is very close to
> I was one of the few lucky ones! The first project on ADF, the CTO
> But, I see the sales division do a dis-service to ADF. Is Oracle
> I am noticing that the clients, some how seem to think, that you can
> I see developers struggling mightly. And the clients refuse to give
> What is the right way to start an ADF project? What should the
> Thanks,
we "sell" ADF.
can't it be like Forms" "Java is complicated" and for these people an in
depth explanation of the full power of ADF is not going to cut it.
Hence we have have presentations/collateral/training for the "ADF for
Forms Developers" and "Fusion Developer with no Java". And if you look
at the up and coming ODTUG agenda you will see a couple of these
sessions as well as hands-on tutorials.
sessions and I've always loved Steven Davelaar's ADF Faces lifecycle
presentation. So we are certainly not hiding how deep you can sometimes
get with the technology.
of the "Fusion" presentations where we cover the whole Fusion
development platform (SOA, Java, ADF, Web Center etc) and how the
technology fits into the "big picture".
develop, but I'd never expect an application to be developed without
knowledge of the platform, the language and the technology. However,
what we do try to show is that not everyone in your organization has to
know all the details about all of these technologies.
Grant
Ajay Koranne wrote:
> Hi,
> ADF, is the demo and basic tutorials provided by Oracle don't do
> justice to the potential of ADF.
> proper documentation and samples and I was pulling my hair. Anyways,
> after getting over that mountain of hurdle I became a convert to ADF.
> I realize the potential of it. And I was ecstatic, when I heard Oracle
> bought Weblogic. I could see endless potential then, especially now
> that Oracle owns Java know! Throw in Webcenter and the various
> integration capabilities (OBIEE, ODI, BAM, BPEL, PeopleSoft,
> JDEdwards, SAP, Portal & SOA) and I am really excited for the future.
> the shift, going from C to Java.
> made it a point that all got the training. Also we followed proper
> SDLC and CMM steps. And the project was a huge success.
> selling ADF has a some "point and drop and the page is ready"? In rush
> for sales, is it sold without telling customers what would be needed
> for ADF?
> just drag a component on to the page and the page is ready to go. Some
> how its okay to bring a newbie and he/she should be able to produce
> good ADF application in no time. They never realize that to be a good
> ADF developer that you first need to be a good Java developer and a
> good web developer.
> them training and add crazy time lines and you have a classic case of
> failed project. Throw in incompetent managers (.Net background,
> thinking Java should work just like .Net) and I see a classic recipe
> for disaster.
> recommended qualifications for an ADF resource be? Can anyone comment?
> Can we have a discussion? Can others chime in with there hardships?
> --ajay