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

Novice

• Build pages with drag-and-drop and simple components

Apprentice

• Build task flows
• Use task flow parameters
• Use normal components

Journeyman

• Understand data bindings
• Build page templates
• Build task flow templates
• Build declarative components
• Simple backing beans
• MDS personalization
• Resource bundles
• Use all components
• ADF Security
• ADF Deployment

Master

• Understand JSF Lifecycle
• Complex backing beans
• Handling uploads
• Drag-and-drop functionality in UI
• Skinning
• Setting up ADF application and project structure
• MDS customization

Artisan

• Build custom components