Neutron reflectivity is a powerful tool for the investigation of interfaces and multilayers in both soft matter and biophysics as well as in solid state physics. In recent years, in addition to the density profile extracted from specular scattering, off specular reflectivity and grazing incident small angle scattering providing information on in plane correlations attract more and more interest. In the present manuscript we report on recent advances and future perspectives of the reflectometer ADAM at the ILL. (c) 2006 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.