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Enterprise Roles VS Application Roles

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It is a very confusing topic, What is the difference between application roles and enterprise roles? Most ADF beginners don't know the difference between them and use them as one thing. Today I'll highlight on the difference between application roles and enterprise roles. Assume that you are in a company that has many working systems on different  platforms and the company recently has an approach to develop a new system using ADF to support one of its systems and you are required to develop the system. The system admin informed you that all users are stored on LDAP server and they are grouped according to their roles and positions. All systems read the users and roles from the LDAP server, No specific users for a system. You developed your application completely and it comes to the last stage that is applying ADF security to your application. You 'll see the required roles or groups needed for your application and you will assign ADF resou...