Hi, just to drop some note that today Oracle released the preview version of JDeveloper 10g (g for 'grid computing'; the Internet obviously seems to have become kind of unappealing in Oracle Marketing's view - even though in the alphabet, it means several steps back ;-) It's available as usual from OTN (otn.oracle com, 230 MB). Well, I downloaded the thing and had a first glance at it. Though it's definitely no lightweight, this is definitely an improvement in all major aspects, and JDeveloper 9i already was a kind of its own to me. It's impossible to mention all the new or improved features here, and the preview obviously has some bugs still (though I must admit I'm running it under Linux and with JDK 1.4.2, which is definitely against all rules), but as far as I can tell from my still limited experiences, the final release will be hell of an IDE. Considering web applications, be prepared for integrated JSTL and visual Struts 1.1 support (like in Struts Studio), automatic deployment to Tomcat versions 4/5 and JBoss (among others), an HTML/JSP designer that really deserves that name now, plus tons of other improvements and helpful features, including subtle things like syntax error highlighting (like in Visual Studio .NET), even in CSS files. Note it's still a preview and not ready for a production environment, but IMHO, there's a real killer Java IDE underway. Let's hope they still distribute it for 'free' when it comes to the final release.
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