JDeveloper IDE Overview

JDeveloper IDE

JDeveloper is aimed to simplify your job as an application developer by providing visual and declarative aids for development. Let us take a quick tour of the IDE to get familiarized with the commonly used editor windows and tools.

•   Application navigator: The application navigator window helps us to manage the contents and associated resources of an application. You can create new projects and source files using the options available in this window.

•    Application resource panel: The application resource panel window displays the application-level resources and configuration files. This includes database connection information, metadata files used to configure ADF Business Components, and so on.

•    Data control panel: The data control panel displays the data collections, attributes, built-in operations, and business methods from the business services exposed through a data control registry. The exposed items from the data control panel can be dragged-and-dropped on the UI, which will generate a metadata XML file to bind the business data with the UI.

•    Structure window: The structure window displays a structural view of the data in the document that is currently selected in the active window. Structure window can be used to view or edit the contents. For example, you can drag-and-drop components from any palette to the structure window.

•    Visual editor: The visual editor window will help you to visually build the UI for ADF applications. It provides a visual WYSIWYG— What You See Is What You Get—editor for HTML, JSP, JSF, Facelets, native mobile UI, and Java Swing. The visual editor allows developers to visually lay out the UI.

Note that JDeveloper synchronizes the selection in the structure window with the visual editor and vice versa.

•    Component palette: The component palette window lists down available components associated with the selected technology that you are using for designing pages or for defining navigation.

•    Property inspector: A property is a named attribute of a class or component that can affect its appearance or its behavior. The property inspector displays the exposed properties of the component selected in the structure window or in the visual editor.

•    Log window: The log window displays the logs from various components such as compiler, audit rules, debugger, and profiler.

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