7 Tips For Better JDeveloper Experience

7 Tips to Give you a Better JDeveloper Experience Shay Shmeltzer Group Manager – Oracle JDeveloper/ADF http://blogs.oracle.com/shay Warning – demos contain small fonts like this You might want to come closer

Agenda
Coding Short-cuts
Easy Navigation
The Structure Pane
Debugging
Extending JDeveloper
Where to get information

The Code Editor
You will end up coding (even if you are using ADF)
It’s not notepad!
Do you really know it?
Are you up to date on new features?
Do you know how it can help you code?
Do you know how it can help you find thing?

Source Menu
Accelerate coding
Keyboard shortcuts or menu or context menu
You can change keyboard accelerators
Configurable Code Templates

Shortcuts to Remember
Ctrl+Enter = code template
Ctrl+Shift+Enter = complete statement
Ctrl+Alt+Space = smart complete
Ctrl+Alt+V = creates variables for you

Code Templates
You can add new ones
You can parameterize them
Not for everything –Sometimes you should create a utility package

Agenda
Coding Short-cuts
Easy Navigation
The Structure Pane
Debugging

Navigating Your Application’s Files
Ctrl+ Mouse Click = Go to Declaration
Ctrl + - = Go to class
Ctrl + Alt + - = Go to file
Alt + Home = Locate file in app navigator
App Navigator – find as you type

File List – Search for Files by Pattern
Easy to locate source files
Search by name, extension, status and more

Search in Log Window
Ctrl+F and search term
Hidden currently, exposed in next release

Navigate Your Class
Ctrl+Shift+` = Quick outline navigator
Structure pane
Type as you go
Alt + Arrow = Navigate to next/prev member
Automatic Highlight

Navigate Your Errors/Tasks
Click to go to specific line
Control to see overview
Color coded

JSF Navigation
Page component hierarchy
Ctrl+Click on managed beans

Context Navigation

Context Navigation Cont’

Agenda
Coding Short-cuts
Easy Navigation
The Structure Pane
Debugging

Structure Pane – The Hidden Editor
Very useful when working with your xml based pages
Move things around
Insert Items in the right location
Surround items
More…

Insert Something in the Right Place

Surround Objects

For ADF Business Components

For Java Files

Space Problems In the Visual Editor ? From This To This

With Two Steps Change Resolution Hide Facets Don’t forget to minimize the log window

Agenda
Coding Short-cuts
Easy Navigation
The Structure Pane
Debugging

ADF Debugging
New in JDeveloper 11g
Debug declarative and XML based artifacts
Specific debugger windows
Don’t forget about debug messages and possibility to get ADF source code

Breakpoint on Declarative Artifacts

Specific Windows

Specific Contextual Information

Document Your Work
JDeveloper has modelers
They can do reverse engineer
Use them to document your application
Java Class, EJB, ADF BC, Database, ADF Taskflows, BPEL, UML

Agenda
Coding Short-cuts
Easy Navigation
The Structure Pane
Debugging

2 Ways to Extend JDeveloper
Extension SDK
Add menus, wizards, editors and more
Comes with samples
Look at other open source extensions
Easier in 11g – new wizards and declarative options
External Tools
Invoke command line interfaces
Pass parameters
Add menus to Jdeveloper
No coding needed

No Coding Extension

Agenda
Coding Short-cuts
Easy Navigation
The Structure Pane
Debugging

The Truth is Out There
The net is full with ADF & JDeveloper knowledge
The tricky part is finding the info you need
Google is a good start
Here are several other sources of data…
FBI agents Fox Mulder

Keep Up To Date
JDeveloper RSS News Feed
http://oracle.com/technology/products/jdev/jdeveloper_news.xml
JDeveloper Blog RSS Feed
http://www.connotea.org/rss/user/jdeveloper
OTN Dev2Dev Newsletter
http://oracle.com/technology/tech/java/newsletter/archive.html
JDeveloper Twitter
http://twitter.com/JdevADF

Get Them In Your Home Page

Get Them Inside JDeveloper
Google Search Extension
Blogs Search Extension
Forums Search Extension
RSS Ticker Extension
Help->Check for Updates -> Open source and partners

Search Blogs
http://www.connotea.org/user/jdeveloper

OTN Discussion Forum
This is the community
They can help you
You need to help them help you
Meaningful subject
Version and technologies used
What you did and why?
Other Forums: WebLogic, TopLink/JPA, BPEL
Good knowledge repository
Not replacing Oracle Support

ADF Enterprise Methodology Group
Created by your peers for you
Higher level of discussion
Best practices
Google group
http://groups.google.com/group/adf-methodology

Summary
There is always more that you can learn about JDeveloper
You probably know things others don’t
Share the knowledge
Start a blog
Help on the forum
Update the wiki
Join a user group
Be part of the community
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7 Tips For Better JDeveloper Experience

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