Chapter 1. The ADF Proof of Concept

Your organization has decided that the Oracle Application Development Framework (ADF) might be the right tool to build your next enterprise application—now you need to set up an experiment to prove that your assumption is correct.

You can compare the situation at the start of a project to standing in front of a mountain with the task to excavate a tunnel. The mountainsides are almost vertical, and there is no way for you to climb the mountain to figure out how wide it is. You can take either of the two approaches:

  • You can start blasting and drilling in the full width of the tunnel you need
  • You can start drilling a very small pilot tunnel all through the mountain and then expand it to full width later

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