Getting to Know Oracle JDeveloper

Watch these great introductory viewlet demonstrations to learn more about Oracle JDeveloper and the Oracle Application Development Framework (Oracle ADF) for J2EE development.

• A Guided Tour of the IDE (viewlet, 10:09 minutes)

A guided tour of JDeveloper's IDE. This viewlet demonstrates the Application and Connection navigators, the Visual Editor and Code Editor, the Component Palette, Property Inspector, and Structure window.

• Oracle JDeveloper 10g Quick Tour (viewlet, 5:59 minutes)

A guided tour of JDeveloper for developing a J2EE application. This viewlet demonstration begins by building Business Services for an application using Oracle ADF Business Components. Then it demonstrates building a user interface for the Business Services using JDeveloper's visual page flow modeler, which allows for visually constructing the page flow of Struts applications. After the application is built, it demonstrates testing the J2EE application using Oracle JDeveloper's lightweight J2EE Application Server (OC4J) and profiles the application using Oracle JDeveloper's Event Profiler.

• Oracle ADF Tour (viewlet, 4:11 minutes)

A guided tour of Oracle’s complete J2EE Application Development Framework (ADF) with Oracle JDeveloper. This viewlet demonstrates how Oracle JDeveloper provides productivity with choice when developing J2EE applications based on Oracle ADF. The Business Services layer can be modeled and created with help from wizards and declarative tools. Developers have a choice in the technology employed and are provided a consistent user experience across the various technologies with WYSIWYG editors to visually and declaratively design their applications.

Creating J2EE Applications

These demonstrations guide the viewer through the steps for creating J2EE applications with various technology stacks, all using JDeveloper. In these demonstrations, you'll see how little manual coding is required and how much easier the development process is with the visual and declarative tools offered by JDeveloper.

• Creating a Simple Login Procedure for a Web Application Using Struts (viewlet, 4:26 minutes)

This demonstration shows how to create a simple login procedure for your applications using a basic JSP combined with a simple Struts page flow.

• Web Services Application Development with Oracle ADF (viewlet, 3:43 minutes)

In this demonstration, an existing Web service provides the business component layer and functions as a business service. The view and controller layers are provided by a JSP and Struts. In addition to Web services, the business component layer could be provided by Entity Java Beans (EJB).

Demonstrating Full Life Cycle Support and Integration with Open Source Tools

Since JDeveloper is a standards-based development platform, it can easily integrate with popular open-source tools. In addition to supporting Struts, Oracle JDeveloper integrates with three of the leading open-source developer's tools—JUnit, CVS, and Ant. The following demonstrations show support for these tools.

• Using CVS for Software Configuration (viewlet, 2:13 minutes)

We create a simple project and show how to use the open-source Current Version System (CVS), an open-source software configuration management tool, to manage the life cycle of the files in the project.

• Using JUnit for Unit Testing (viewlet)

We use JUnit, an open-source testing framework for Java, to test a simple project from inside JDeveloper. Oracle JDeveloper also lets you use Ant, an open-source build tool, to create a batch process to manage a project.