When vendors start charging more than $10,000 for a single tool, you know
that the product category is about to heat up. Since Java IDEs have
multiplied, I recently took Oracle JDeveloper 10g for a test drive - perhaps
you didn't realize this vendor had a serious Java IDE.
Product Description
Oracle JDeveloper 10g is an integrated development environment (IDE) for
building Java applications. It supports the latest industry standards for
Java, XML, and SQL including J2EE 1.3, XML, WSDL, SOAP, UDDI, J2SE, and J2ME.
Oracle JDeveloper's integrated features enable the developer to manage a
project throughout the development life cycle of modeling, coding, debugging,
testing, profiling, tuning, and deploying applications. These features are
actually part of the product. JDeveloper offers enough features without
cluttering the product with stuff I won't use. Contrast that w... (more)