What is OAF?

                                             What is OAF?               

• 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.
  
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  Necessity to use OAF In Oracle Apps:
  The necessary to use OAF in Oracle applications is Integration, Security, and Customization.
  Integration:  Registration of Forms is easy.
  
  Security: Flexibility reasons if we are using third party we don’t know when it is going to fail.
  
  Customization: If we are integrating with third party customization is tough where as using OAF customization is little bit easier when comparing to Other Third party customizations