Just back from a two-day internal ADF seminar for EMEA sales consultants that we had in Duesseldorf.
One of the sessions I did was on the database features of JDeveloper 10g. Every time I run through the set of features we have, even for internal, technical Oracle audiences like this, there's always someone in the crowd that says, "Wow! I had no idea JDeveloper could do that. Cool!"
This is a short list from memory of the database-related features in JDeveloper 10g that I covered today:
- Visual database schema visualization and creation with the new Database Diagram support.
- Generation of SQL DDL scripts (either create-from-scratch, or alter-existing-tables-to-match style) for any/all of the tables in your database diagram
- New filtering control on the Database connection nodes in the Connection Navigator (Filter which schemas objects you want to see, what kinds of schema objects you want to see, and optionally supply a name filter for those objects to narrow the list)
- SQL Worksheet to test the data returned from and the query optimizer Explain Plan of any SQL statement
- PL/SQL editing, compiling, and debugging (with syntax highlighting, code completion, etc.)
- PL/SQL Exception Breakpoints (e.g. exception breakpoint on exception named $Oracle.EXCEPTION_ORA_6502 to stop in the debugger whenever/wherever an ORA-6502 error is thrown in your code)
- WebDAV support for mapping Oracle 9i-or-later's XMLDB WebDAV folders into JDev
- New visual XML Schema editor to visually understand, modify, or create new XML Schemas to use with Oracle's XML database features.
And there were probably a few more. The more I'm going around showing off the JDeveloper 10g release and Oracle ADF framework to people, the more confident I feel that the only real functional competition we have is Microsoft Visual Studio in terms of breadth and depth of features, as well as tight, integrated end-to-end development support.
With the JDeveloper 10g release we've filled in some of the holes we had from the 9i release. Someday I'll have the time to write a whitepaper illustrating how we beat Visual Studio in most areas. I had submitted a JavaOne 2004 abstract presentation entitled "Can J2EE Tools and Frameworks Beat Visual Studio .NET Whidbey?" and I had planned to prove that the answer was "you're damn right they can!" on stage with a point by point demo.
Too bad the presentation didn't get accepted. :-(
11:26:19 PM 
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