Newsflash: 19th October 2007: JHeadstart 10.1.3.2 Released (see: Announcement)

JHeadstart is a suite that helps jump-start development of ADF web applications, based on ADF BC and ADF Faces. JHeadstart offers an Application Generator that is driven by meta-data, declarative descriptions of the application, its pages and its fields. JHeadstart allows developers with a little or no Java or even ADF experience the opportunity to very rapidly create fully functional applications.

JHeadstart has been around since 2001, originating from a small team within the Oracle Netherlands Consulting organization. Its first incarnation was built on the BC4J, JSP and 9iAS MVC Framework for J2EE (aka Project Cleveland). The next generation of JHeadstart used ADF BC, JSP and Struts and the current release is based on ADF Faces and ADF BC. One of the tributes to the approach taken by the JHeadstart team is the fact that an application definition created back in 2001 for the then current technology can be used today to generate the same functionality on top of the latest generation ADF Technology. And JHeadstart promised to do the same for the JDeveloper/ADF 11g toolstack: generate an 11g application based on meta-data that can be as old as 5 years, originally intended for technology largely forgotten by now.

The JHeadstart team write a blog at: http://blogs.oracle.com/jheadstart/. The very active OTN Discussion Forum can be found at: http://forums.oracle.com/forums/forum.jspa?forumID=38. The JHeadstart home page is located at: http://www.oracle.com/technology/products/jheadstart/index.html .Many other blogs around the world regularly report on JHeadstart.


JHeadstart is the perfect choice when you have often the same flow pattern (Master-Detail, Wizard-Train, Hierarchie Editing) in your application. The configurable generator do all the tedious work, that you normally do per hand with some Drag&Drop operations inside Jdeveoper.