Application Development Framework is a set of code that

is responsible for calling your actual business logic based on

its defined architecture.

▪ to create RESTful APIs with underlying web application

▪ to connect databases with ORM tools

▪ to provide centralized logging features

▪ to provide Identity Management

▪ to collect and visualize monitoring and metrics

▪ to facilitate to connect 3rd party services like Kafka, Redis, RabbitMQ so

on..

▪ Provides all those features in order to focus on actual

business logic.

▪ Java Spring Boot or .Net ecosystem as an Application

Development Framework.

▪ Have to develop all those stuff by yourself.

https://www.tekstream.com/blog/application-development-framework-adf-an-overview/