You can download an Early Access release of Oracle's new, free tool for simplifying your job of working with the database on any platform (not just Windows!).:
Project Raptor Home Page on OTN
If you notice the UI looks similar to JDeveloper, that's because Raptor is built on top of the JDeveloper 10g core platform -- conceptually similiar to the core Eclipse Rich Client Platform -- but has been consciously stripped down to remove all the Java bits, as well as had numerous SQL-developer enhancements made. Since they are all developed according to the JDeveloper add-in architecture, we'll be able to incorporate these enhancements easily into a future version of the JDeveloper tool so that Java developers working with the database will eventually have the best of both worlds in a single tool.
A lot of collaboration has gone on between the JDeveloper and Raptor teams to make sure that Raptor could be easily built on top of the core JDeveloper 10g IDE platform services. This core IDE platform is conceptually identical to the core Eclipse Rich Client Platform. I hope in the future we can provide enough documentation to allow any developer doing Swing development with JDeveloper 10g to leverage this core IDE platform as a "shell" to build their own desktop business applications, too, saving you the trouble of having to invent the windowing, menuing, docking, accelerator key management, preferences, etc. by yourself, or from having to acquire a third-party set of Swing component infrastructure to do it for you.
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