Overview

JDeveloper supports the complete development life cycle, with integrated features for modeling, coding, debugging, testing, profiling, tuning, and deploying applications, either from scratch or using the Oracle Application Development Framework (Oracle ADF). Additionally, software configuration management support provides a useful infrastructure in which to develop applications in a team environment. Whatever implementation you choose, JDeveloper offers all the productivity tools you need to get the job done: UML modelers, visual editors, wizards, dialogs, and code editors.

This unique combination of productivity and flexibility enables you to precisely choose the technology you want to work with or, alternatively, to simply get started with a default set of technologies without investigating and evaluating all the available options.

Once a technology choice has been made for a project, the environment will adapt itself to show you only the relevant options as you work. You can extend your applications through custom code, and customize or add to the behavior of the framework using XML metadata and Java code. Applications can then be deployed to any J2EE server, and connected to any SQL database.

This flexibility is a substantial improvement over the traditional development frameworks, where developers were forced into a proprietary application model, with little or no possibility to work outside of the environment.