How many of base classes for Business Components the ADF Framework uses?

Eight and the four most important ones are:

• EntityImpl corresponds to one row of data and contains methods to create a row, set attribute values
and perform database operations.
• ViewObjectImpl corresponds to the view object query. The methods in this class allow you to set bind
variable, modify the WHERE clause and execute the query.
• ViewRowImpl corresponds to the result set from a query and contains a collection of pointers to the
actual data stored in EntityImpl objects.
• ApplicationModuleImpl is an instance of an application module; different users will have different
instances. Methods in this class handle database transactions.

The ADF framework uses four additional classes internally:

• EntityCache implements the cache for data retrieved from the database
• EntityDefImpl is the factory for producing entity objects of a specific type
• ViewDefImpl holds the definition of a view object
• ApplicationModuleDefImpl holds the definition of an application module