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Has anybody used Oracle Application Development Framework's Business Components (ADF BC)? What are the disadvantages and issues that you faced? Can anyone compare PL/SQL with ADF BC?
Would like to know the advantages and dis-advantages of both the technologies(PL/SQL and ADF BC).
Can anybody help on this?
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by: sdstuberPosted on 2009-11-05 at 05:20:08ID: 25749085
I'm not an ADF expert at all, but from what I have read, you're comparing apples and oranges.
PL/SQL runs inside the database, it is the best language for data manipulation after SQL. That's not a matter of personal preference it's simple architechture.
Anything you do to data outside of the database will be done through sql, same is true for pl/sql except there is no transfer of data and some objects (like sequences) can be manipulated directly
in pl/sql too (11g+). Furthermore, some aspects of data control can only be implemented through pl/sql like triggers and fgac.
However, pl/sql has no facility for display of data and is somewhat limited in it's ability to cache application results, 11g helps here too, but an ADF in-memory view/grid can be much more efficient when used properly. Also, while pl/sql does have the ability to interface with web services and other protocols I think it can be argued java and the larger frameworks have a richer functionality set.
Basically it's a divider line at the "edge" of the database. If you are working with the data itself (CRUD) then you probably want to use sql and pl/sql.
Since pl/sql runs inside the database, that leaves everything outside the database for other technologies like ADF-BC.