OAF vs Fusion Technology Stack

Hi all,
We have developed custom business processes (similar to SSHR actions like Termination, Salary Change, etc...) where you enter data through an OAF page or pages, optionally go through approvals and then update Apps or some other application through appropriate APIs.
We are in the process of reworking the actions and adding numerous more and are going through the decision process on whether to develop using OAF or the Fusion Technology Stack.
Has anyone come across white papers or other discussions on which to use going forward? Will OAF be around in 2008 when Fusion comes out, does a current 11.5.10.2 architecture support developing with the Fusion Tech Stack (like does the latest approved AS work with JDev 10.1.3?).
Looking for some type of decision checklist on which should be used.
Thanks, Rob

Rob, OAF will be supported in all pre Fusion releases. Fusion is going to be based on ADF techstack and there might be a lot of architecture change both in technology and product lines. So if you are planning to migrate to Fusion sometime when it gets released you need to analyse if the customizations are even relevant with that product line at that point of time(It is difficult to comment without understanding the extent of change in product lines).
You should be able to use 10.1.3 techstack with OAF in the future releases. You should wait for the actual release milestones to get documentation on that, I can only provide pointers on that now(I work with Oracle development).
It is your decision to customize applications using OAF or ADF at this point. We can recommend the best approach of doing customizations with the current ebusiness suite. If you use OAF you get a lot of advantages of using extension hooks and deploying customizations in a upgrade safe manner. You get the underlying AOL/J security infrastructure for free when developing new pages and integrating them. If you choose to develop your applications using ADF then you need to take care of all these things as well as you will be running applications in two different technologies OAF(ebusiness suite) and ADF(your custom development). You should then try and integrate these two pieces.

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