Oracle Application Development Framework Reviews

It's mainly used for building enterprise web applications.

It's database-centric, and it's seemingly easy to use the model–view–controller pattern that's built-in.

It's a full-stack solution, so there is also the possibility to build complex UIs using JavaServer Faces and its components.

The model layer could be improved for performance because once that part gets bloated, the performance is lacking. So, there is room for performance optimization. 

On the View Controller part, the UI components could be improved because the look and feel is very outdated.

I've been using it for about five to six years.

It's stable.

That's where I have issues with it. It's said that it's scalable, but I have found that it's a bit lacking in that department. Once it gets too big, the performance goes significantly down.

My team, consisting of 10 to 12 developers, uses this application framework. It's mostly used in Europe on projects in the public sector. 

I haven't interacted with them, but there are forums. There are specialists who have blog posts regarding certain issues, but I haven't written directly to their support.

It's fairly easy. There is a guideline for it. It takes from a couple of seconds to one or two minutes depending on the size of the application.

To anyone evaluating or planning to use this solution, I would advise grasping the idea that is a database-centric framework. You'll have to work down to up from the database layer. You have to know how the components are configured and go through the whole learning path.

I would rate it a six out of ten.