I was consulting for companies using it as a main java framework for all their work. While you can write Java code, most of the time you don't because it gets generated (along with lots of XMLs) and you need special hardware, IDE, build server etc...
Needless to say, the end result was in each case junk, sometimes so big that dedicated oracle tech crew couldn't fix it in 6 months. Any time you are out of the ADF comfort zone (which is like 10 minutes after you tried CRUD) you don't know what to do or you have amazing performance problems (team was using huge dedicated server which could run easily 100+ services instead of the single one badly).
There is nothing as horrible as it is, its even framed as MVC framework. I would rather Scratch or Lolcat.
I was consulting for companies using it as a main java framework for all their work. While you can write Java code, most of the time you don't because it gets generated (along with lots of XMLs) and you need special hardware, IDE, build server etc...
Needless to say, the end result was in each case junk, sometimes so big that dedicated oracle tech crew couldn't fix it in 6 months. Any time you are out of the ADF comfort zone (which is like 10 minutes after you tried CRUD) you don't know what to do or you have amazing performance problems (team was using huge dedicated server which could run easily 100+ services instead of the single one badly).
There is nothing as horrible as it is, its even framed as MVC framework. I would rather Scratch or Lolcat.