Devoxx '08 | ADF presentation (Lucas Jellema)
I attended the ADF presentation at devoxx this year. The presentation by Lucas Jellema, it showed the basics of ADF and a brief look at JHeadstart in practice.
The presentation given by Lucas Jellema of the AMIS blog was a short session of about 30 minutes. The presentation itself was mainly aimed at people who had never heard about the ADF framework or the JHeadstart technology. But unless the limited time he had, it was one of the best presentations in my opinion. It was a good mix of theory and practice.
New for me was to see ADF 11g in action. Jellema also demonstrated the use of block charts and the ease to react on user input. What he had done in about an half an hour takes an incredible amount of time making with another application. He demonstrated what rapid application development and building rich interfaces is all about.
For the first part of the demo, he showed a master-detail table-table and added more components to it to sort the tables and select the lay-out of the columns. To react to user input he added an action to the left mouse button, to show a pop-up with details, using a read-only form. After that he added a block chart to the page (which was new to me).
The second part of the demo he demonstrated the strength of JHeadstart, to create CRUD screens. He added overflow area's and briefly showed the power of what JHeadstart can do.
It was a short but very interesting session, I think Jellema totally succeeded in showing the strength of the Oracle ADF framework. In the shortest amount of time he had built sample applications with rich interfaces without writing any line of code.