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

Agenda

Coding Short-cuts

Easy Navigation

The Structure Pane

Debugging

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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