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Oracle JDeveloper Pros and Cons: Top 5 Advantages and Disadvantages

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Users appreciate the excellent features of Oracle JDeveloper, making it easy to connect and navigate for all skill levels. (5 mentions)
Users value the ease of application development with Oracle JDeveloper, enhancing productivity and integration capabilities. (3 mentions)
Users commend Oracle JDeveloper for its ease of use, making it beginner-friendly and simple to navigate. (2 mentions)
Users value the excellent connectivity of Oracle JDeveloper, making it a preferred choice among Oracle developers. (1 mentions)
Users value the easy integrations of Oracle JDeveloper, enhancing their development process with seamless software connectivity. (1 mentions)
Users find the steep learning curve of Oracle JDeveloper daunting, particularly for those unfamiliar with Oracle’s ecosystem. (2 mentions)
Users often face technical issues in Oracle JDeveloper, experiencing bugs and corruptions that hinder project development. (2 mentions)
Users find the outdated UI of Oracle JDeveloper hampers long-term development and creates usability challenges. (2 mentions)
Users find JDeveloper beginner-unfriendly due to its steep learning curve and resource-intensive nature, hindering new users. (1 mentions)
Users find that Oracle JDeveloper demands high resource usage, impacting performance and slowing down their systems. (1 mentions)

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180 Oracle JDeveloper Reviews

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Oracle JDeveloper Pros and Cons

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Verified User in Information Technology and Services
UI
Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)
"Jdeveloper for interface development"
What do you like best about Oracle JDeveloper?

Great product for the money.Navigation is not intuitive as it should have been. I really like Jdeveloper for SOAP interface and web service development and the support community by Oracle is great.Very powerful software. All product has been good to this point, product support has been current and up to date, very helpful. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Oracle JDeveloper?

Initial installation steps were not much clear as there were two files required for installation. I was not sure which file to start with. Not supporting Groovi development language yet. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Events Services
UE
Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)
"How Oracle can help your business"
What do you like best about Oracle JDeveloper?

Oracle is the best and strong Database in the market and very easy to learn.

I like the way it can be learn very easy and friendly. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Oracle JDeveloper?

I would say the price is one think that dont like from Oracle.

It all depends for what time of business do you want to implement it Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Ameya D.
AD
Supplier Quality Engineer
Automotive
Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)
"Oracle JDeveloper review"
What do you like best about Oracle JDeveloper?

It offers features for development in Java, XML, SQL and PL/SQL, HTML, JavaScript, BPEL and PHP. JDeveloper covers the full development lifecycle from design through coding, debugging, optimization and profiling to deploying Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Oracle JDeveloper?

There are no red flags but the user interface could have been better Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Electrical/Electronic Manufacturing
UE
Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)
"Oracle JDeveloper"
What do you like best about Oracle JDeveloper?

It is easy to Customize to fit any company's need, also it's free which is a big plus. Its a great Data Organizing software that stores all your information in one spot for everyone to view. The Drag and Drop feature is also very good. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Oracle JDeveloper?

It is not very easy to Learn, it does have some bugs, it can get slow and take time to respond. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Jallal E.
JE
Software Developer
Automotive
Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)
"JDeveloper a solid tool for J2EE development"
What do you like best about Oracle JDeveloper?

JDeveloper is a solid Java development tool , and it's intended primarily for J2EE development. It's an out of the box ready, comprehensive features, and seamless integration. Installation only takes unzipping an archive file. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Oracle JDeveloper?

Relative obscurity for a Java IDE that comes with a price tag. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Telecommunications
UT
Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)
"The Oracle IDE"
What do you like best about Oracle JDeveloper?

Good idea for Java development in projects with Oracle compatibility Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Oracle JDeveloper?

Something weak for debugging and resetting large projects Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Financial Services
CF
Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)
"User friendly tool to develop oracle jsp pages"
What do you like best about Oracle JDeveloper?

Intelligent tools that gives the class names while typing so you don't have to look at user guides. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Oracle JDeveloper?

Sometimes errors are not user friendly. And connectivity issues as well. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Information Technology and Services
CI
Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)
"Started my career with Java and no looking back"
What do you like best about Oracle JDeveloper?

When Java came it had trimmed out all the difficult features of C++ or C including multiple inheritance and pointers which may be for a hands on C developer may love this feature and hate Java for not having it, but in turn it came as a blessing for me. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Oracle JDeveloper?

As of now not much apart from not getting much tutorial when new versions of OracleJ Developer gets launched immediately unlike Eclipse where we have numerous tutorials available. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Financial Services
CF
Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)
"Software Developer"
What do you like best about Oracle JDeveloper?

The best thing about this software that it is very easy to use Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Oracle JDeveloper?

I don't dislike about this software aything Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Information Technology and Services
UI
Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)
"Product Review for JDeveloper"
What do you like best about Oracle JDeveloper?

Love how Oracle has combined OSB and other SOA components into one on 12 c and all can be accessed simply in JDeveloper. Also, like how component palette and improved version in 2.0 from 1.1 Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Oracle JDeveloper?

JDev likes to crash a lot especially when you're in the middle of development. Also, every time you need to check the logs, the log window does not appear unless clicked, which is troublesome as you need to keep checking the logs. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Pricing Insights

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Time to Implement

5 months

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