Comments
By Roger Strukhoff
Richard Davies wrote: The UK has a good crop of technology pioneers in cloud computing - for example ElasticHosts, FlexiScale, Flexiant, OnApp - and also some strong government initiatives such as G-Cloud. We will have to see whether this kind of technical leadership converts into swift mass-market adoption or not.
Jan. 8, 2012 11:38 AM EST
Cloud Computing
Conference & Expo
November 2-4, 2009 NYC
Register Today and SAVE !..
Did you read today's front page stories & breaking news?
SYS-CON.TV: How Do You Minimize Unpleasant Surprises in Your Java Code? Guest Nigel Cheshire

2008 West
DIAMOND SPONSOR:
Data Direct
SOA, WOA and Cloud Computing: The New Frontier for Data Services
PLATINUM SPONSORS:
Red Hat
The Opening of Virtualization
GOLD SPONSORS:
Appsense
User Environment Management – The Third Layer of the Desktop
Cordys
Cloud Computing for Business Agility
EMC
CMIS: A Multi-Vendor Proposal for a Service-Based Content Management Interoperability Standard
Freedom OSS
Practical SOA” Max Yankelevich
Intel
Architecting an Enterprise Service Router (ESR) – A Cost-Effective Way to Scale SOA Across the Enterprise
Sensedia
Return on Assests: Bringing Visibility to your SOA Strategy
Symantec
Managing Hybrid Endpoint Environments
VMWare
Game-Changing Technology for Enterprise Clouds and Applications
Click For 2008 West
Event Webcasts

2008 West
PLATINUM SPONSORS:
Appcelerator
Get ‘Rich’ Quick: Rapid Prototyping for RIA with ZERO Server Code
Keynote Systems
Designing for and Managing Performance in the New Frontier of Rich Internet Applications
GOLD SPONSORS:
ICEsoft
How Can AJAX Improve Homeland Security?
Isomorphic
Beyond Widgets: What a RIA Platform Should Offer
Oracle
REAs: Rich Enterprise Applications
Click For 2008 Event Webcasts
In many cases, the end of the year gives you time to step back and take stock of the last 12 months. This is when many of us take a hard look at what worked and what did not, complete performance reviews, and formulate plans for the coming year. For me, it is all of those things plus a time when I u...
MORE »
SYS-CON.TV
Features
REA Is Where RIA Becomes the Norm
JDeveloper 11g is a complete end-to-end development platform

By: Chris Muir
Jun. 2, 2009 10:00 PM

Oracle on Ulitzer

Do you believe that the day when programmers could focus on one language in their jobs is gone? Thanks to the ever-changing IT landscape and the uncertain financial times, contemporary developers are expected to work with a wide range of platforms, frameworks, languages as essentially "masters of all and specialists in none." You need your IDE to move with the times too, moving beyond the simple compiler and debugger to solve the challenges that contemporary developers face. Oracle JDeveloper is such an IDE. From a fledging Java IDE over 10 years ago, today JDeveloper 11g is a complete end-to-end development platform, including a strong declarative programming model that removes the need to write everything by hand in Java, a mature framework used by Oracle itself in its own products that encompasses Object-Relational Mapping (ORM) and Web 2.0 functionality out-of-the-box, delivered on one of the strongest application server platforms in the industry, and ultimately assisting you, the modern programmer, in meeting your day-to-day IT challenges.

Early on a key differentiator between JDeveloper and sibling Java IDEs was Oracle's focus on Java EE end-to-end development, where the complete tool supported not only Java mid-tier programming out-of-the-box, but also database development and user interface design, without having to download separate plug-ins. Unlike other Java centric vendors, Oracle recognized - thanks to its own application development - that an application is more than just middle-tier Java code; an application is comprised of many moving parts including a persistence layer, user interface technologies, and Java mid-tier code, all of which an end-to-end IDE should ideally assist with.

JDeveloper has all the things you'll need for your run-of-the-mill Java EE development from EJB 3.0 and JPA modelling, through an advance code editor to visual JSF page designs - but what really makes JDeveloper unique in the landscape of Java IDEs is the integration it provides with a development framework that encapsulates all of those technologies and streamlines the development experience - this is the Oracle Application Development Framework (ADF).

Published Jun. 2, 2009— Reads 17,041 — Feedback 2
Copyright © 2009 SYS-CON Media, Inc. — All Rights Reserved.
Syndicated stories and blog feeds, all rights reserved by the author.
Related Stories
▪ Oracle Executive to Keynote on Rich Enterprise Applications at AJAX World
▪ AJAX World RIA Conference & Expo Kicks Off in New York City
About Chris Muir
Chris Muir, an Oracle ACE Director, senior developer and trainer, and frequent blogger at http://one-size-doesnt-fit-all.blogspot.com, has been hacking away as an Oracle consultant with Australia's SAGE Computing Services for too many years. Taking a pragmatic approach to all things Oracle, Chris has more recently earned battle scars with JDeveloper, Apex, OID and web services, and has some very old war-wounds from a dark and dim past with Forms, Reports and even Designer 100% generation. He is a frequent presenter and contributor to the local Australian Oracle User Group scene, as well as a contributor to international user group magazines such as the IOUG and UKOUG.

In order to post a comment you need to be registered and logged in.

Register | Sign-in

Reader Feedback: Page 1 of 1

Hi Steve

In answer to your query on "taken the Oracle world by storm", it's based on the statistic that SQL Developer was the most downloaded software from OTN in March this year (Source: Twitter @krisrice). Other empirical evidence includes that the OOW08 SQL Developer sessions were standing room only (closely followed by the Exadata sessions I hear ;-).

Subjectively I can say *all* of my clients in the last year have SQL Developer installs/users in one form or another, and in some cases have active programs to assess SQL Developer as a replacement for similar IDEs. If I read it correctly the big enticement for them seems to be "free" though for myself other reasons apply.

Regards your comment "....[SQL Developer users] most of them don't rely on it exclusively for their development work." I can't comment on PL/SQL coders as a collective as I neither have the evidence to back any opinion up and to be truthful rarely meet just "PL/SQL developers" these days - most developers I meet are multi skilled beyond just the database. This could be a difference between your customers and my customers down here in Australia, many sites are *very* small so developers need to be jack-of-all-trades. However from my own point of view if we just consider development work I do with the database I agree with your comment. For PL/SQL I use a combination of SQL Developer, SQL*Plus, text editors (UltraEdit or Notepad++ mostly), occasionally Quest's Toad, occasionally other tools like OEM or Apex.

It'd be my pleasure to catch up with you in August, I'd be happy to take you on a tour of some of the sites if you have time.

Thanks & regards,

CM.

Chris, very interesting post. One thing that caught my eye was this statement:

"SQL Developer has taken the Oracle world by storm as a free and comprehensive Oracle development IDE with support for browsing database objects, running SQL statements and SQL scripts, and editing and debugging PL/SQL statements."

Can you tell me what data you have seen to support the "taken the Oracle world by storm" comment?

I do lots of trainings and presentations to PL/SQL developers and I still find that a very small number of them seem to be using SQL Developer, and most of them don't rely on it exclusively for their development work. My audiences may, however and understandably, be skewed towards Toad users (I work for Quest Software), but still....

Warm regards AND....I will be in Perth in August doing presentations for Quest. Perhaps we can meet up!

SF


Your Feedback
chriscmuir wrote: Hi Steve In answer to your query on "taken the Oracle world by storm", it's based on the statistic that SQL Developer was the most downloaded software from OTN in March this year (Source: Twitter @krisrice). Other empirical evidence includes that the OOW08 SQL Developer sessions were standing room only (closely followed by the Exadata sessions I hear ;-). Subjectively I can say *all* of my clients in the last year have SQL Developer installs/users in one form or another, and in some cases have active programs to assess SQL Developer as a replacement for similar IDEs. If I read it correctly the big enticement for them seems to be "free" though for myself other reasons apply. Regards your comment "....[SQL Developer users] most of them don't rely on it exclusively for their development work." I can't comment on PL/SQL coders as a collective as I neither have the evidence to bac...
stevenfeuerstein wrote: Chris, very interesting post. One thing that caught my eye was this statement: "SQL Developer has taken the Oracle world by storm as a free and comprehensive Oracle development IDE with support for browsing database objects, running SQL statements and SQL scripts, and editing and debugging PL/SQL statements." Can you tell me what data you have seen to support the "taken the Oracle world by storm" comment? I do lots of trainings and presentations to PL/SQL developers and I still find that a very small number of them seem to be using SQL Developer, and most of them don't rely on it exclusively for their development work. My audiences may, however and understandably, be skewed towards Toad users (I work for Quest Software), but still.... Warm regards AND....I will be in Perth in August doing presentations for Quest. Perhaps we can meet up! SF
SOA World Latest Stories
By Maureen O'Gara
In a surprise move on Tuesday, January 10, Oracle wheeled out its Big Data Appliance. That’s the one it said in October would be ready sometime in the first half. Only nobody believed it meant early in the first half. Heck, it’s not even clear anybody thought Oracle could make the fi...
By Maureen O'Gara
A Munich court Thursday found Motorola Mobility guilty of infringing an Apple patent and handed Apple a permanent injunction against two Android smartphones. Apple can enforce the injunction after posting a bond lest MMI succeed in invalidating the slide-to-unlock patent (EP1964022) ...
By Tomer Teller
Quick Response (QR) codes are intended to help direct users quickly and easily to information about products and services, but they are also starting to be used for social engineering exploits. This article looks at the emergence of QR scan scams and the rising concern for users today....
By Maureen O'Gara
The Chinese company that claims it owns the iPad trademark says it plans to seek a ban on iPad exports out of China, threatening global supplies. According to what a lawyer for Proview Technology (Shenzhen) Co Ltd told Reuters, the firm is petitioning Chinese customs to stop shipment...
By Maureen O'Gara
Cisco Wednesday filed suit in the European Union’s second-highest court, the General Court in Luxembourg, challenging the European Commission’s rubber stamp last October of Microsoft’s $8.5 billion acquisition of Skype. Cisco says it isn’t opposed to the merger, but figures the EC sh...
By Pat Romanski
2011 was a year of rapid adoption for public and private cloud services. Instant and on-demand server provisioning was the driving force behind the massive growth. On top, cloud server templates and script automation simplified application installation for simple and pre-defined applic...
MORE »
Subscribe to the World's Most Powerful Newsletters
Subscribe to Our Rss Feeds & Get Your SYS-CON News Live!
Click to Add our RSS Feeds to the Service of Your Choice:
Google Reader or Homepage Add to My Yahoo! Subscribe with Bloglines Subscribe in NewsGator Online
myFeedster Add to My AOL Subscribe in Rojo Add 'Hugg' to Newsburst from CNET News.com Kinja Digest View Additional SYS-CON Feeds
Publish Your Article! Please send it to editorial(at)sys-con.com!

Advertise on this site! Contact advertising(at)sys-con.com! 201 802-3021

SYS-CON Featured Whitepapers
Most Read This Week
By Jeremy Geelan
By Bob Hockman
By Brian McCallion
By Steven Yaskin
By Jeremy Geelan
By Jeremy Geelan
By Udayan Banerjee
By Jeremy Hess
By Udayan Banerjee
By Maureen O'Gara
By Liz McMillan
By Hollis Tibbetts
ADS BY GOOGLE