Ever wonder what are this entries that gets added to the adf url in the addressbar like

afrWindowId=null&afrWindowMode=0&_adf.ctrl-state=qkx3a0o59

These are all the parameters for adf that to maintain the user session

_afrLoop – This is a unique identifier which is used to determine if the current window is new or not. This is used by ADF Faces Javascript. This entry is used as a token for the Loop Script

_afrWindowMode – This is a unique identifier which is used to determine if the current window is new or a dialog. This is used by ADF Faces intself to identify the mode

_afrWindowID – unique identifier assigned by the WindowIdProvider for ADF Faces to identify the current borwser window on the client and server For adf applications, ADF contoller supplies the WindowIdProvider

_adf.ctrl-state – This is the token provided by ADF controller to identify the current user state. This token is used to retrieve the user state within the task flow.

jsessionid – This is a cookie provided by the Weblogic Application server to uniquely identify the HTTP Session. This is passed as a token intially and stored in the cookie later