Tuesday, November 3, 2015

Why we opted against using Oracle MAF


What is Raastech Mobile Manager?

Have you seen Raastech Mobile Manager for Oracle Fusion Middleware? It's the world's only mobile monitoring and management solution for Oracle Fusion Middleware.

It has been built with a customizable framework, top-notch and responsive UI, and does everything you would expect a mobile app like this would do.

For more details, check out www.raastechmobile.com.

Designed for Oracle from the start

We are an Oracle partner. We implement Oracle solutions. We use Oracle products ourselves.

So from the start, Raastech Mobile Manager was intended to be built leveraging Oracle tools, Oracle infrastructure, and Oracle frameworks.

Currently, the Raastech Management Server (the server backend) runs on the following Oracle infrastructure software:

Deciding against Oracle MAF

For the development of our iOS and Android apps, we've chosen to go native instead of using Oracle MAF.

Forget Oracle ADF Mobile... that thing is dead. Instead, Oracle Mobile Application Framework, otherwise known as Oracle MAF, was released on June 30, 2014 and recommended by Oracle for all new mobile application development.

Oracle MAF is available as an extension to both JDeveloper and Eclipse and offers a Java-based MVC framework that executes in a hybrid container on the various mobile OSs.


The Good
  • Develop a single application that will run on both iOS and Android devices
  • Oracle Support Services available

The Bad
  • HTML5 is not what it's cracked up to be (see TheLadders' and Facebook's experience)
  • You must license Oracle MAF per user per app or per app with unlimited number of end users <-- this is the deal breaker


Though Oracle will provide you with a break if you purchase some of the Oracle Mobile Cloud Service offerings, as it stands, the awful Oracle MAF licensing model pretty much sums it up.



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