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Demonstration of JDeveloper 10g GUIDeveloper(s) Oracle Corporation Stable release 11g (11.1.2.0.0) / June 6, 2011 Written in Java Operating system Cross-platform Type Integrated development environment License Proprietary OTN JDeveloper License Website Oracle JDeveloper JDeveloper is a freeware IDE supplied by Oracle Corporation. It offers features for development in Java, XML, SQL and PL/SQL, HTML, JavaScript, BPEL and PHP. JDeveloper covers the full development lifecycle from design through coding, debugging, optimization and profiling to deploying.
With JDeveloper, Oracle has aimed to simplify application development by focusing on providing a visual and declarative approach to application development in addition to building an advanced coding-environment. Oracle JDeveloper integrates with the Oracle Application Development Framework (Oracle ADF) - an end-to-end Java EE-based framework that further simplifies application development.
The core IDE exposes an API that other teams in Oracle use to build extensions to JDeveloper. BPEL, Portal, BI and other components of the Oracle platform[which?] all build their design-time tools on top of JDeveloper. The same IDE platform also serves as the basis of another Oracle product, SQL Developer, which Oracle Corporation promotes specifically to PL/SQL- and database-developers.
Contents
Features
Prior to JDeveloper 11g, JDeveloper came in three editions: Java Edition, J2EE Edition, and Studio Edition. Each one offered more features on top of the others, and all of them came for free. JDeveloper 11g only has two editions: Studio Edition and Java Edition. In JDeveloper 11g, J2EE Edition features are rolled into the Studio Edition.
A high-level list of features includes:
Java Edition
- Java SE 5 Support
- Code Editor
- Code Navigation
- Refactoring
- Swing
- Unit Test
- Version Control
- Audit & Metrics
- Debugging
- Profiling
- Ant Support
- Maven Support
- XML Support
- Open API & Extensions
- User Assistance
J2EE Edition
- JSP
- Struts
- JSF
- JSF 2.0
- Facelets
- EJB
- TopLink
- Web Services
- RESTful Web Services
- UML
- Database Development
- Deployment and management
- Hudson
Studio Edition
- ADF Databinding
- ADF Faces
- ADF Faces Skin Editor
- ADF Mobile
- ADF Business Components
- ADF Swing
- ADF Deployment
- BPEL Designer
- ESB Designer
- Portlet Development
- Portlet/JSF Bridge
History
In 1998, the first version of JDeveloper was based on a licensing of the JBuilder product from Borland. JDeveloper went through a complete rewrite to be based on Java, for its 9i (2001) version.
The 10g version (9.0.5) showcased the first release of the revamped Oracle ADF.
In 2005 Oracle Corporation released JDeveloper as free software.
In 2006, still under the 10g tag, and after significant delays, Oracle released version 10.1.3 - the latest major 10g release.
In October 2006, Oracle released version 10.1.3.1 that added support for the final EJB 3.0 spec along with BPEL and ESB design time.
In January 2007, Oracle released version 10.1.3.2 incorporating WebCenter capabilities such as creating and consuming portlets, portlet/JSF bridge, and content-repository data control.
In January 2007 Oracle had more than 150 people working in various roles on the product, including (in no particular order): developers, development managers, QA engineers, build engineers, doc writers, product managers, customer evangelists, and usability engineers. Development centers operated in Redwood Shores, Bangalore, Reading (UK), Pleasanton, Colorado. Source:[1]
In May 2007 Oracle released a technology preview release of version 11g.
In October 2008 the production version of Oracle JDeveloper 11g, code named BOXER, became available.
In July 2009 JDeveloper 11g version 11.1.1.1.0, code named Bulldog, became available[2]
In June 2011 the latest version of JDeveloper 11g (11.1.2.0.0), code name Sherman, became available [3]
Visual and declarative
The JDeveloper code editor offers a rich set of coding features and helpful utilities and visual utilities that provide a different view of the code as well as the declarative dialogs helping in creation of Java EE components and also ADF Components are good in looking.
For example, JDeveloper provides a visual WYSIWYG editor for HTML, JSP, JSF, and Swing. The visual editor allows developers to modify the layout and properties of components visually: the tool re-generates the code. Any changes in the code will be immediately reflected in the visual view. JDeveloper offers similar experiences for developers of both JSF and Struts page flows.
Declarative features enable programmers to generate EJBs or POJO based on existing tables in databases. JDeveloper automates the creation of Java EE artifacts - for example with a simple click one can turn a java class into a Web Service and JDeveloper will generate the WSDL and all the required JAX-RPC components.
License
JDeveloper is proprietary software free for development and deployment. Oracle ADF has a runtime license when deployed outside of an Oracle Application Server. For further details, see the Oracle Technology Network Developer License Terms for JDeveloper.
See also
References
- ^ One size doesn't fit all: JDeveloper Q&A with Steve Muench
- ^ History of JDeveloper Releases
- ^ History of JDeveloper Releases
Bibliography
- Mills, Duncan; Koletzke, Peter; Roy-Faderman, Avrom (October 20, 2009), Oracle JDeveloper 11g Handbook: A Guide to Fusion Web Development (1st ed.), McGraw-Hill, p. 928, ISBN 0071602380, http://www.mhprofessional.com/product.php?isbn=0071602380, retrieved 2009-09-05
- Vohra, Deepak (April 16, 2008), Ajax in Oracle JDeveloper (1st ed.), Springer, p. 224, ISBN 3540775951, http://www.springer.com/computer/programming/book/978-3-540-77595-9, retrieved 2009-09-05
External links
Categories:- Integrated development environments
- Java development tools
- Oracle software
- PL/SQL editors
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