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As promised, I’m posting of the presentation I’d been hoping to give at the OOW Unconference Methodology Symposium last week, expanded slightly for the more forgiving medium of a blog. As it turns out, it’s expanded substantially more than I thought, so I’m going to divide it into two parts. This week, I’ll talk about the basics of the methodology, its goals, and the two techniques it relies heavily upon. Next week, I’ll talk about the actual development process it specifies.

“Extreme Reusability” (the name is not mine, but rather Chris Muir’s; however, I decided I like it) is an idea for an ADF development methodology for mid-sized teams (generally around 4-20 developers) that I’ve been recently expanding on. Continue Reading »

Over on the ADF Methodology group, in a thread called ADF Study, we recently talked about ways to get up to speed with ADF. If you’ve been following this blog at all, you’ve probably guessed (from my sheer number of links to them) that I’m a big fan of the various ADF Developer’s Guides. I want to point these guides up a bit, because they’re a massively underused resource, for beginning and even experienced ADF developers.

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In my very first post on this blog, I talked about service-oriented architecture (SOA), and how, while I thought it was extremely appropriate for a certain range of cases, the overhead involved in web service invocation made it very inappropriate for an equally wide, if not wider, range of cases.

Today, I want to talk a bit about an ADF 11g alternative to SOA that still gives you many of its benefits without the web service invocation overhead: reusable applications. (Next week, I’ll talk about another SOA-in-spirit mechanism that ADF 11g provides: Shared application module instances.) Continue Reading »