Oracle Developer Suite
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Oracle Developer Suite is a suite of development tools released by the Oracle Corporation
. The principal components were initially Oracle Forms
and Oracle Reports
, although the suite was later expanded to include JDeveloper
amongst others.
The suite was renamed to Oracle Developer and then to Oracle Developer/2000.
As with most products that had 2000 in their name, this was dropped after 1999 and the suite was renamed Oracle Developer Suite. Tools such as JDeveloper and Oracle Designer were added over subsequent years.
Most of the component parts of Oracle Developer Suite are now part of what Oracle calls Oracle Fusion Middleware
.
The software components that are included in the suite have also changed over time.
Oracle Corporation
Oracle Corporation is an American multinational computer technology corporation that specializes in developing and marketing hardware systems and enterprise software products – particularly database management systems...
. The principal components were initially Oracle Forms
Oracle Forms
Oracle Forms is a software product for creating screens that interact with an Oracle database. It has an IDE including an object navigator, property sheet and code editor that uses PL/SQL. It was originally developed to run server-side in character mode terminal sessions. It was ported to other...
and Oracle Reports
Oracle Reports
Oracle Reports is a tool for developing reports against data stored in an Oracle database. Oracle Reports consists of Oracle Reports Developer and Oracle Application Server Reports Services .-Output formats:The report output can be delivered directly to a printer or saved in the following...
, although the suite was later expanded to include JDeveloper
JDeveloper
JDeveloper is a freeware IDE supplied by Oracle Corporation. It offers features for development in Java, XML, SQL and PL/SQL, HTML, JavaScript, BPEL and PHP...
amongst others.
History
In the early 1990s, Oracle had two complementary, but quite different tools - SQL*Forms and SQL*ReportWriter. Both were character-based and there was some integration between the two although they were sold as separate products. The developer interface became more similar over time and they were eventually grouped together as Oracle IDE (Integrated Development Environment).The suite was renamed to Oracle Developer and then to Oracle Developer/2000.
As with most products that had 2000 in their name, this was dropped after 1999 and the suite was renamed Oracle Developer Suite. Tools such as JDeveloper and Oracle Designer were added over subsequent years.
Most of the component parts of Oracle Developer Suite are now part of what Oracle calls Oracle Fusion Middleware
Oracle Fusion Middleware
Oracle Fusion Middleware consists of several software products from Oracle Corporation. OFM spans multiple services, including Java EE and developer tools, integration services, business intelligence, collaboration, and content management...
.
Components
The name of the suite has been changed a few times.The software components that are included in the suite have also changed over time.
| Suite Name | Version | Components | Date |
|---|---|---|---|
| Oracle IDE | Forms, Reports, Book, Graphics | ||
| Oracle Developer | Forms, Reports, Book, Graphics | ||
| Oracle Developer 2000(D2K) | Forms, Reports, Book, Graphics | ||
| Oracle Developer Suite | Forms, Reports, Designer, JDeveloper |
Current status
The latest release, Oracle Developer Suite 10g consists of the following components:- Oracle JDeveloperJDeveloperJDeveloper is a freeware IDE supplied by Oracle Corporation. It offers features for development in Java, XML, SQL and PL/SQL, HTML, JavaScript, BPEL and PHP...
- Oracle FormsOracle FormsOracle Forms is a software product for creating screens that interact with an Oracle database. It has an IDE including an object navigator, property sheet and code editor that uses PL/SQL. It was originally developed to run server-side in character mode terminal sessions. It was ported to other...
- Oracle ReportsOracle ReportsOracle Reports is a tool for developing reports against data stored in an Oracle database. Oracle Reports consists of Oracle Reports Developer and Oracle Application Server Reports Services .-Output formats:The report output can be delivered directly to a printer or saved in the following...
- Oracle DesignerOracle DesignerOracle Designer is Oracle's CASE tool for designing an information system and generating it. After generating the information system one is able to edit the generated code with Oracle Developer Suite-Components of Oracle Designer:Business Process Modelling...
- Oracle DiscovererOracle DiscovererOracle Discoverer is a tool-set for ad-hoc querying, reporting, data analysis, and Web-publishing for the Oracle Database environment. Oracle Corporation markets it as a business intelligence product...
- Oracle Software Configuration Manager
- Oracle Business Intelligence Beans