What is OAF

OAF Overview

Oracle Application Framework (OAF) is an architecture for creating web based front end pages and J2EE type of applications within the Oracle EBS ERP platform.Oracle Application Framework is the development and deployment platform developed by Oracle to develop the Oracle E-Business Suite “Self-Service” or HTML based Applications.

OA Framework, is based on the industry-standard Model-View-Controller(MVC) design pattern and can be used to develop extensions to existing E-Business Suite functionality. Oracle Application (OA) enables you to personalize the layout of the user interface and the content it displays to suit your business needs. Oracle’s JDeveloper tool with an Oracle Applications extension is used for development for the Oracle Applications Framework and uses Java & XML languages for the same.

Oracle Application Framework (OA Framework or OAF) is a framework developed by Oracle Corporation for application development within the Oracle E-Business Suite (EBS)

Oracle Application Framework (OAF) provides visual and declarative approaches to Java EE development. The OA framework is also available to customers for personalization’s, customizations and custom-application development.

The OA Framework helps to create self Service pages in Oracle EBS.

The OA Framework helps in controlling the flow of the application.

OA Framework works on the basic Java EE principles.

To Learn OAF you must know the Basics of Java like Core Java.

User Interface is Very Interactive in OAF

OA Framework contains inbuilt security

We can view OA Framework pages in mobile phones too which contains Internet browsing feature

OA Framework is J2EE based but it also supports various standards like HTML, XML, SQL, JSP.