From ADF to Fusion AI Agents: what an ADF developer already knows
It has been nine years since my last post here. Between 2007 and 2017 this blog collected 120 posts on Oracle ADF and JDeveloper, and more than half a million page views from developers solving the same problems I was. I'm bringing it back for one reason: if you spent those years building with ADF, you are better prepared for enterprise AI agents than you think. This post is for the ADF developer who now works on Oracle Fusion Applications, or who keeps hearing "agentic AI" and wonders how much of it is new. My short answer: the hard part of enterprise agents is not the model. It is the same discipline ADF made us practice every day. ADF already taught you the shape of an enterprise agent An enterprise agent is a model that reads a request, decides which business operation to call, calls it with the user's permissions, checks the result, and moves to the next step. Strip away the model and that is a description of an ADF application: a page that knows its context, bi...
