Oracle ADF Enterprise Application Development – Made Simple Second Edition

Chapter 5. Preparing to Build

If you have children, you might be making gingerbread figures for Christmas. Your artistic children are likely to be handcrafting each figure individually—but you, as an efficiency-oriented adult, are probably using a cookie cutter to produce a whole batch of almost identical Santas.

When you need to create many similar objects efficiently, you use a template (similar to your cookie cutter). When you need to create dozens of task flows and hundreds of screens, all with some common elements, you use the ADF cookie cutters: task flow templates and page templates for the frontend view part and framework extension classes for the backend Business Component part.

Creating common workspaces

All of the templates and framework ...