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Continuing with previous article, the same MAF application has been migrated to 2.3 and here i want to highlight my observations. As usual, the list is not exhaustive and depends on the features that we used. For  more information on 2.3 release, refer to documentation here.

• Now the default Alta Skin version is 1.5, however we need to manually modify to this version in maf-config.xml.
• Since Windows 10 support is added, now migrated application will have windows related resources and deployment profile.
• The plugin-ids for core plugins Contacts are changed to cordova-plugin-contacts.
• Now maf-application.xml shows cordova engine versions supported by MAF for each platform (Android, iOS, Windows).
• Login connection configuration does not have Mobile-Social as one of the mechanisms and users are advised to use oAuth2.
• oracle/wss_http_token_over_ssl_client_policy is not listed in OWSM policies in Security section of maf-application.xml.
• All allowed URL Schemes that are allowed to be accessed have to be listed in maf-application.xml -> security for iOS.
• Whitelisting is removed from maf-application.xml and also the API AdfmfJavaUtilities.addWhiteListEntry(Entries) are deprecated.  Refer to this post for implementing this functionality manually.
• Now the RestServiceAdapter to be initialized in the following manner and old class has been deprecated. Observe the imports below.

                             import oracle.maf.api.dc.ws.rest.RestServiceAdapter;
                             import oracle.maf.api.dc.ws.rest.RestServiceAdapterFactory;                       

                             RestServiceAdapter restAdapter = RestServiceAdapterFactory.newFactory().createRestServiceAdapter();

• setRequestType() method in RestServcieAdapter is modified to setRequestMethod().

I observed the following issues are resolved in MAF 2.2:

• Fcaed some issues with plugman during the installation of cordova plugins (e.g.: Barcode scanner) in linux envs when used symbolics based Source control system. Basically, its an issue with symbolic links.