In order to keep the business-IT gap manageable, it is important for analysts, designers and architects to know what their implemented application landscape actually looks like. An important part of this is insight in dependencies between different components. In
my previous blog post I’ve described how service dependencies can be determined. In this blog post I will provide a script for analyzing which services are called by ADF pages. Keep in mind both analyses are executed on source code. This can differ from the runtime environment.
The Oracle ADF framework consists (among other things) of several XML files which refer to each other. This comes in handy when you want to analyse ADF code since XML is easily parsed and queried. In order to determine service calls I have made the assumption that webservice calls are executed using the excellent the ADF EMG XML DataControl by Wilfred van der Deijl and Richard Olrichs as announced on
http://www.olrichs.nl/2014/05/announcement-adf-emg-xml-datacontrol.html and
presented at OOW 2014.
