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Oracle JDeveloper is a powerful software that marks a significant milestone in the progress of application development.

We spent more time than ever in this release listening carefully to what our users need in order to make them more productive. We also embarked on an intensive design and usability review by an external company.

The result of these efforts is a huge leap forward in the speed in which developers can create, assemble, and reuse components to build rich, interactive applications that are highly performant and easy to maintain.


Enhanced use experience

There have been many updates throughout the product to make working with JDeveloper a pleasant experience. These improvements are not restricted to a particular type of development, but have been applied consistently to all areas of the design time.
• Enhanced navigator: The Application Navigator has been enhanced to organize your application the way you want. New categories make it easier for you to find what you are looking for. Collapsible panels put common elements of your application within easy reach. Files that make up a composite node are conveniently exposed by simply clicking on the composite node.
• Improved Component Palette: The component palette now features collapsible panels and divider sections to organize related components. A quick search field is provided to help locate components. You can now add commonly-used components to your Favorites list for easier access later, and another panel keeps track of your recently used components.
• New Property Inspector: The Property Inspector has been redesigned with a new, user-friendly layout. Property categories have been used consistently throughout the product to make using the Property Inspector more predictable.
• Application Overview: The new Application Overview window provides a convenient listing of all the sources for your application, grouped into helpful categories. From here, you can get a sense of the overall status of your application (which sources are incomplete, which have errors, etc) too. The Application Overview also functions as a way for you to learn about the various kinds of components you may use in your application, and easily launch wizards to create them.
• File List: The File List makes it easier than ever to locate source files that are part of your project. You can search by file name, file extension, status, date modified and more.
• Updated appearance: The JDeveloper development environment has been updated with a brand-new look.
• Integrated modeless editors: Many editors for components have been converted to integrated modeless editors. These appear in the editor area along with the other editors, and allow for much more productive navigation.
• Contextual linking: Contextual linking is the concept that as you are working on something, you should be able to easily get to relevant related resources. For example, as you are working on defining a page flow for databound pages, you should be able to easily get to the page definition of those pages. This concept is now employed wherever it makes sense in the development environment.


Resource Catalog

The Resource Catalog is your window onto the many disparate resources your application may need to consume. It allows you to define connections to the resource providers, and drag-and-drop those resources into your application as needed. The resource catalog provides a search tool to search all the defined repositories in a single action.

Connections can be created for the following types of resource repositories:
• Application server
• Database
• File system
• UDDI Registry
• URL adapter
• WebDAV

New diagramming framework

The internal diagramming framework used to build the UML tools in JDeveloper, the Page Flow diagrams, and other visual editors has been re-architected to be more flexible for internal consumers.


Java Coding and Agile Development


New code generators

New generators have been added for generating equals and hashcode and to simplify generating fields and properties with getters and setters and to generate constructor from fields

Updated JUnit 4.0 support

JDeveloper now generates unit tests using JUnit 4 annotations. The integrated runner has been updated to support JUnit 4, including new instructions, such as @ignore.

New profilers

The new profilers leverage JVMTI and therefore run on any certified Java VM. Oracles OJVM is no longer required for profiling.
• CPU Profiler
• Memory Profiler

XML Compare

Comparing of XML files is now done using an XML-aware algorithm. In previous releases compare was done using a line algorithm with no understanding of the syntax of the file content. XML is used extensively within JDeveloper (projects, diagrams, ADF artifacts) and the characteristics of the file content will be understood by the tool.

For example if an XML elements attributes are reordered the compare tool will not mark that as a change - the attributes (name and value) are the same, but in different positions.

The compare tool is used by all the version control extensions to compare file content with previous versions. Compare is also used by the local history feature to compare content between saved points.

Enhanced Merge Conflict Resolution for Subversion and CVS

JDeveloper now provides an enhanced XML-aware interactive GUI to browse and update unresolvable conflicts reported during the merge process.

Thinking Home 2.1.3b12 will make you satisfied because it is considered as the easiest-to-use and affordable home automation solution which is created to boast a modern design that delivers performance without compromising ease of use.

Thinking Home supports some of the most popular new hardware, including both PowerLinc V2 models, ActiveHome Pro (CM-15A) and more than 100 other models of gadgets and scores of USB serial adapters.

Version 2.1 is well-equipped to run 24-7 and make use of Mac-only things like speech, scripts, email, instant messaging and web access.

Major Features:

1. Faster than ever!
2. In many cases, it can store your schedule in a controller and let you turn off your Mac.
3. Built-in speech recognition. You say "Turn on the living room lamp." and it does!
4. Setup Assistant to help you get started
5. Gadget Guide with more than 100 models of hardware
6. INSTEON and X-10 standards
7. Events and Responders can operate gadgets, open web pages, play audio, all kinds of actions
8. Innovative Desktop Remote operates your gadgets directly from the Finder
9. Sherlock plug-in for finding answers in home automation forums, wiki's and newsgroups
10. Web access that fits seamlessly with Apple's built-in Personal Web Sharing
11. Email and iChat/AOL Instant Messenger, even to cell phones
12. Scripting with AppleScript and virtually any language you have installed (unix shell scripts, Python, Perl, etc.)
13. Voice commands and spoken announcements
14. Logging

Requirements:

• Mac OS 10.3.9 or later
• Non-USB controller models require a USB-serial adapter.
• The Sherlock feature is available on Mac OS 10.4 and earlier.

The Adventures of Blork 2 1.0.2 is a popular and enjoyable game to which you cannot close your eyes.

After Blork defeated Xork and reacquired his blog, things were pretty normal, or as normal as they could be for a small green blob living in Blorkville. But Xork, fleeing Blorkville, has been secretly training and raising an army of demons to quash Blorkville and his arch-enemy, Blork. But Blork himself, thinking Xork had vanished from its life, let its powers wane and spent most of its time in a boat drinking beer.

Now Xork has returned, more vengeful than ever, and has cast a dark shadow over the world and thrown Blork into prison. Is there any hope for Blork, will all your base belong to Xork? Is the grass really greener on the other side? Can Blork dig it? Find out in the Adventures of Blork 2 - The Return of Xork! The Adventures of Blork 2 - The Return of Xork is being entered for Udevgame 2003 - The annual macintosh game development contest.

Requirements: Mac OS 8 - OS X

Requirements:
System 7.5 or later.

Enhancements:
Version 1.1 describes the system in more detail than ever, while still giving you the industrys most accurate measurement tools, including many of the important specifications of your machine.

FontExplorer X 1.2.3 offers you a useful icon font tool which sets a new standard for font management software. After several relatively sad years for all font users who were looking for a professional font manager, Linotype is pleased to fill the gap with the new FontExplorer X. Font management has never been so simple, and font sorting, font shopping and font discovery are now more fun than ever. FontExplorer X gives computer users all the font functions they could need, and lets them decide how deeply they wish to dive into various font themes.