Bradley D. Brown

JDeveloper is Oracle’s Integrated Development Environment (IDE). Because of the first letter, J, which stands for Java, people primarily think of JDeveloper as a Java development tool. JDeveloper is FAR more than that!

I thought I’d focus today’s post on how JDeveloper does modeling. You can develop use case models using UML modeling. Additionally, JDeveloper does database modeling (i.e. ERDs). This is functionality that used to exist within Oracle Designer. If you have an existing database that you would like to develop an ERD for, you can extract that model using JDeveloper and it will automatically draw the ERD for you!

The JDeveloper team just keep adding to the database modeling functionality. In fact, what sparked this post was that I received an email from Dana Singleterry on Monday. Here’s the email:

Dear JDeveloper Users,

The JDeveloper team is looking to gather feedback on the DB Modeling capabilities of JDeveloper. if you have used the DB modeling in JDeveloper will appreciate if you can answer the next few questions for us: I used the DB modeling features in the following versions (Choose many): JDeveloper 11 Technology Preview JDeveloper 10.1.3 JDeveloper 10.1.2 or earlier I used the DB modeler for (choose many): Forward generation of DB objects. Reverse engineering of DB into diagrams. Maintaining DB objects. Overall my impression of the DB Modeling capabilities of JDeveloper are (free text):

Thanks, Dana Singleterry

I responded to Dana’s email with the following question:

“Sounds like something I should check out! Did Oracle Case/Designer get “rolled into” JDeveloper?”

And Dana responded today with this answer: “We are constantly adding functionality to JDeveloper to cover the database modeling that was available in Designer. We did a lot of work on this in 11 as well as adding more features.” I use JDeveloper nearly every day. If you haven’t considered JDeveloper as your new favorite IDE (and note - it’s free), I’d recommend that you take a look at it! I think you’ll like what you learn.

Bradley D. Brown JDeveloper CASE Designer