May 24, 2019

Oracle JDeveloper: Is this IDE dead? Are there new releases?

Some weeks ago i read the Java Magazine (http://www.javamagazine.mozaicreader.com)

They report from a survay taken place in 2018 about Java. One of the questions was which application server do you use in production:

This was not really amazing.
But the question about the IDE gave a really surprising result:



More developers use IntelliJ than Eclipse?
Not really surprising was the usage of Oracle's JDeveloper: Only 1% of the developers use this tool.

You have to keep in mind, that with using Oracle's SOA Suite / BPEL / ESB you are forced to use JDeveloper - which means this SOA stuff is not used by many people out there.

If you take a look on the Oracle homepage you will find:


The last version was released in august 2017 - this does look like living software.

For architects and consultants JDeveloper can be very useful because it has a very nice visualization of XSDs and XSLTs (Take a look here). So hopefully JDeveloper will stay alive...

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