Andrej Koelewijn blogs about an Oracle ADF Seminar he attended and what he learned. He makes some fair observations about current "out of the box" limitations of ADF like not supporting multi-row updates or multiple struts-config.xml files. Shay Smeltzer points out in one of the comments that both of these issues have existing How To articles written (by our own Duncan Mills) to help you implement the functionality where you need it until we can improve the out-of-box support for both of them in a future release:
Andrej goes on to comment:
Of course Eclipse was also discussed and many agreed that for coding java (as opposed to using wizards and drag and drop) JDeveloper still lags Eclipse. But apparently the JDeveloper development team is now focussing on improving the java code editor.
I can emphatically confirm that the JDeveloper team is focussing on this as we speak. Not all of our code-focused-development features were able to be finished and polished and documented in time to make the JDeveloper 10g 9.0.5 release "train." We have a significant number of extremely interesting code-focused features that will meet or beat the expectations of developers currently using Eclipse, IntelliJ, or those keeping an eye on Visual Studio 2005 ("Whidbey"). The combination of even-more-improved code-focussed development with our already solid visual, framework-based application development features in ADF, will continue the trend to make JDeveloper an IDE that any Java developer will want to at least check out, before settling on a tool of choice.
I was out at Oracle HQ for the last three weeks and got a demo of the latest progress on these features for the next major JDeveloper release and was quite impressed with what the team has done in the code-focused-development feature area since wrapping up their work on the JDeveloper 10g version 9.0.5.1 feature set.
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