IFrame in ADF Application - Menu and Show Page in IFrame

ADF Applications uses power of reusable task flows to be embed as regions in the page, which can be refreshed based on the use cases.

But there are some requirements by the clients which still emphasize on using Iframe to display different applications inside one application.

Suppose there is a requirement where there are 3 applications A,B and Consuming Application. All three applications A,B and Consuming needs to be deployed as separate EAR(Applications) and Consuming App needs to display the A and B Applications pages inside its main page.

Portal architecture can also fit for this requirement but if there is only ADF you need to implement this, the only choice to do is using Iframe.

In this post I will explain you how we can create a menu and show another application in IFrame in ADF Application.

ADF Shared Library - Deploying ADF War as Shared Lib

In Oracle ADF Applications , mostly the architecture is like there are task flow applications which can be based on module and then there is one main consuming application.

In this post we will see how we can deploy the ADF applications as Shared Library. ADF Application consisting of task flow will be packed as WAR and will be deployed as shared library to weblogic. Then The Main Consuming Application will refer the Task Flow App and use the task flow from shared library.

Lets get started.

Created a simple ADF Application and created DepartmentsEO/VO out of HR Schema in Model project. ViewController project consist of Task Flow with one page fragment which has an output text and a ADF Table out of DepartmentsVO.  Also created a DataSource jdbc/HRDS in weblogic console and Application Module is referring to this DS.