ADFS

ADFs is an acronym used in several different fields, most often in information technology and enterprise software. Because the same letters can refer to distinct concepts, understanding the context is important. The following are among the most common uses of ADFs.

Azure Data Factory (ADF) is a cloud-based data integration service from Microsoft. It is used to create, schedule, and manage data pipelines that move and transform data from various sources to destinations such as data lakes and data warehouses. ADF supports a code-free visual authoring experience as well as code-based options, and it integrates with other Azure services for data ingestion, orchestration, and transformation.

Oracle ADF, short for Application Development Framework, is a Java EE framework from Oracle. It provides a set of design-time and runtime components to build enterprise applications, following a Model-View-Controller pattern. Oracle ADF offers data binding, UI components, and tooling via Oracle JDeveloper or Eclipse, and it is commonly used within Oracle Fusion Middleware environments.

Active Directory Federation Services (AD FS) is a Microsoft technology that enables single sign-on and identity federation across organizations. It supports standards such as SAML, WS-Federation, and OpenID Connect, allowing users to access multiple applications with a single set of credentials. While the standard acronym is AD FS, some informal references may appear as ADFs, though this usage is less common and can cause confusion.

In other domains, ADFs may appear as project names or organization-specific acronyms. When encountering the term, it is best to rely on surrounding context to determine which concept is being referenced.