CHAPTER 3JDeveloper and ADF as RAD Tools

Although the whole trend of modern engineering progressis towards the elimination of hand labour by machineryin the production of metal articles,nevertheless, there still is—and always will be—a certain amount of hand work necessaryin fabricating many engineering parts.

—Arthur W. Judge (1887–?), Engineering Workshop Practice (1936)

Rapid Application Development (RAD) is a somewhat abused term. There is no formal definition of what constitutes a RAD technique or environment, so vendors have used the term to encompass everything from What You See Is What You Get (WYSIWYG) editing facilities to model-driven code generation.

This chapter starts out by defining what we mean by RAD and then looks at the implications ...

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