Demonstration of using Spring and ADF together

Question

I have wondered about the potential for combining the ADF Binding Framework and the IDE capabilities around ADF in Oracle 10g JDeveloper with the Spring Framework. I concluded rapidly that the most meaningful way forward would be to implement a Business Service based on DAO interfaces and DAO implementation classes, potentially using either Hibernate or Toplink or – as in this case – plain JDBC made easy by Spring JDBC Templates, and registering that service as a DataControl with the ADF Binding Framework. Once that DataControl is registered, it cannot be discerned from other POJO based DataControls and it can be used just as easy as in most cases as the ADF BC based Data Controls. That means: rapidly developing web applications, largely through dragging and dropping Data Controls and their components in a WYSIWYG style visual editor becomes a reality.
I have written an article that describes how to set up a simple Spring Business Service - based on POJO and plain JDBC although this could also have been Hibernate or Toplink for example- and register that Business Service as Data Control with ADF Binding Framework. I then continue in a familiar way to create a UIX page that displays data from the Spring Business Service.
I believe this is a useful first step in combining Spring (hot, open source, talk of the town) with ADF (productive, linking and decoupling point for Model vs. View/Controller).
In case you are interested, please take a look at: http://technology.amis.nl/blog/index.php?p=765
best regards,
Lucas Jellema

Answer 1

Peter,
I am not aware of any project like this right now. However, Duncan Mills did develop a data control for Spring that he used for his talk. For some reason I don't know, this data control however never made it to production. However, you should be able to integrate Spring through a POJO data control
Frank