It supports rapid application development based on ready-to-use design patterns, metadata-driven and visual tools.
Implementers can deploy Oracle ADF applications on Java EE-compliant containers.
Users of the free ADF Essentials edition can buy support for these applications on GlassFish.
[2] The current[update] ADF architecture with the generic model/binding layer was introduced with JDeveloper 9.0.5.
In June 2006 Oracle Corporation donated the ADF Faces component library to Apache Trinidad.