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The Future of ADF and Jdeveloper

Stuart FlemingOct 4 2017 — edited Nov 22 2017

We are starting to use ADF (Jdeveloper) as a replacement of an Oracle Legacy product.  However, the recent events of Oracle getting rid of Java has led my manager to reconsider using ADF.  There is also an industry shift towards web-based development tools.

He has interpreted the statement of direction that they will be working mostly on javascript solutions, and will not be updating functionality in the future.  He has also commented that Oracle has not updated the statement of direction for ADF since the Java outsource, leaving their clients in the dark about it.

I contended that I thought Jdeveloper is now a mature technology, therefore did not need massive upgrades especially since many upgrades require significant resources.   Jdeveloper does just about everything, so it doesn't need much, except tweaks.

What is the future direction given all the changes?  Our development window is 20 years.  We need something that will be around that long.

Thank you,

Stuart

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Joe Huang-Oracle
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Hi, just want to make sure - did you install the ADF MObile Client extension yet? Please go to JDev-Help-Check for Updates-Official Oracle Extensions and Updates, and find Oracle ADF MObile Client Extension in the list. Check it, download it, and then restart JDev. Sounds like the extension was not installed, so it's not able to load any J2ME libraries.

If you have downloaded the extension already, please go to project properties-libraries and classpath, and then see if the sample app is referencing some third party libraries, for example something from RIM. If so, please double check the path to the library.

Once you installed the extension, you can also access the ADF Mobile Client developer guide - it contains all the documentation around what you need to install first. Please take a look and see what you need to install - at a minimum, you need to install BlackBerry JDE if you want to deploy to BlackBerry, and Windows Mobile Emulator if you want to test the app on Windows Mobile. Lastly, if you need to synchronize data, then you also need Oracle Database Lite MObile Server installation.

Thanks,

Joe Huang
Marked as Answer by 761579 · Sep 27 2020
761579
Thanks Joe, I figured it out that it is Net_rim_api.jar that is causing those errors, and added it to my project to resolve them.

Regards,
Prasad.
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