This list shows the minimum skills a person needs to have in order to be considered at a specific level as an ADF Business Component developer

Novice

• Build default EOs, VOs, AMs

Apprentice

• Creating simple validation rules

Journeyman

• Understand ADF lifecycle
• Advanced validation rules
• Tuning BC
• ADF Deployment
• Setting up JDeveloper
• MDS personalization
• Resource bundles

Master

• Build BCs on web services
• Extend base framework classes
• Overriding doDML()
• Setting up ADF application and project structure
• MDS customization

Artisan

• Understand all public BC APIs