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Oracle JDeveloper Pros and Cons: Top 5 Advantages and Disadvantages

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Users highlight the excellent features of Oracle JDeveloper, making it easy to connect with Oracle EBS and more. (5 mentions)
Users value the easy application development capabilities of Oracle JDeveloper, streamlining their workflow and integration processes. (3 mentions)
Users appreciate the ease of use of Oracle JDeveloper, finding it user-friendly and beginner-friendly for various tasks. (2 mentions)
Users appreciate the easy connectivity of Oracle JDeveloper, as it simplifies integration with Oracle EBS and other applications. (1 mentions)
Users value the easy integrations of Oracle JDeveloper, enhancing their development efficiency and collaboration with other tools. (1 mentions)
Users find the steep learning curve of Oracle JDeveloper challenging, particularly for those unfamiliar with its ecosystem. (2 mentions)
Users experience technical issues such as bugs and UI problems that disrupt development and project management. (2 mentions)
Users face a buggy UI that hinders development with a steep learning curve and resource-intensive performance. (2 mentions)
Users find JDeveloper beginner unfriendly, with a steep learning curve and an outdated interface hindering new users. (1 mentions)
Users feel that Oracle JDeveloper has high resource usage, leading to slower performance on their computers. (1 mentions)

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179 Oracle JDeveloper Reviews

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Oracle JDeveloper Pros and Cons

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Chandan R.
CR
Senior Software Engineer
Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)
"Oracle JDeveloper best application development tool"
What do you like best about Oracle JDeveloper?

It is free and simplifies the development of java based applications. It is very reliable and user friendly. The tool designs web applications faster. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Oracle JDeveloper?

It is easy to use this tool but it however requires technical knowledge to develop applications Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

Its one of the best development plateform which supports Java , SOA, ADF . This can be linked with database to run and fetch sql queries. It has support XML , HTML . Also It has pre-built weblogic which helps to validate the code. I have used it for SOA BPEL asynchronous webservice. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Oracle JDeveloper?

Its not drag drop tool like OIC. One needs to have proper technical knowledge to develop application using Oracle J Developer. Training is must to use this tool. Refreshing does not happen sometimes as its heavy tool. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Deepak M.
DM
Senior Engineer - Product Development
Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)
"Best General Purpose Java IDE"
What do you like best about Oracle JDeveloper?

1. Easy to use.

2. Many Oracle Plugins available, also comes with bundled SQL developer client and

3.Easily integrated with oracle ADF to support faster and easier development Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Oracle JDeveloper?

1. UI is a bit slow & laggy compared to eclipse, specially during searching.

2. Mostly Oracle centric IDE. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Jayani N.
JN
Associate Software Engineer
Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)
"I use JDeveloper to create Java, SOA and BPM applications to accomplish usage"
What do you like best about Oracle JDeveloper?

JDeveloper has every single expected apparatus to build up an application for any of it items, it gives every single expected device to finish the existence cycle of the application. Likewise it has an incorporated Weblogic runtime condition so you dont need to do additional activity downloading more documents, arrangement and so on.

It has reconciliation with different instruments like Git so you can work with your group on a similar application.

The Oracle people group is huge so you find numerous instructional exercises that makes it simple to create on JDeveloper and how to oversee it.

It furnishes numerous alternatives to make Web-services with only a single tick and numerous different things so you don't need to invest much energy to build up an application, the creating is quicker. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Oracle JDeveloper?

The software requires of course much memory of your PC, so in the event that you have a group of engineers you should do some acclimation to your PCs so as to run JDeveloper easily. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

ALPER K.
AK
Senior Software Engineer
Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)
"Jdeveloper Great to make developments"
What do you like best about Oracle JDeveloper?

* Nice to make development as an Oracle product

* PL/SQL development is fast and easy

* Realible

* Easy to learn Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Oracle JDeveloper?

* Sometimes it becomes very slow

* Could be much more smaller application Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

RM
Customer Service Agent
Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)
"Oracle is an organized program that makes communication simple and quick."
What do you like best about Oracle JDeveloper?

The control over our phone, chat and email channels. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Oracle JDeveloper?

Sometimes it's slow, or unresponsive and crashes. Not being able to sort incidents or chat windows in a certain order. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

AD
Software Developer
Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)
"Nice Integration Product"
What do you like best about Oracle JDeveloper?

It's easy to go tool for Orchestration of services. It's a very good tool to use when you are integrating with multiple services. It's easy to use and fast to develop orchestration layers with the tool. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Oracle JDeveloper?

It restricts the developer from customizing a lot Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

EY
Senior Developer
Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)
"Standard application development"
What do you like best about Oracle JDeveloper?

I can't say I like it very much. i used compulsorily Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Oracle JDeveloper?

not effective. plugin management failed. There are more alternatives Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Utilities
IU
Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)
"JDev IDE"
What do you like best about Oracle JDeveloper?

It has Visual and Declarative Editors, HTML editor,IDE has Drag-and-Drop Function, good for J2SE, J2EE with, Full Database Development Environment, for deploying in Application Server i.e Web Appls& Mobile Apps and also Oracle Fusion Middleware. With ADF Plugin Oracle EBS forms can be efficiently customized, functions extended. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Oracle JDeveloper?

Slow performance, run time sluggish, installation configuration problems, lack of good information for configuration in MAC / Linux, crashing out during running the project.jpr Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

JL
Software Developer
Computer Games
Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)
"Oracle JDeveloper Java EE IDE"
What do you like best about Oracle JDeveloper?

Oracle JDeveloper added several development addons like HTML, XML, PHP, AJAX and has incorporated their own database. Oracle is well known for their databases too which I think is awesome.

JDeveloper always looks for ways to simplify tasks at the time of deployment.

It has a very simplified, and easy to use interface for the end user.

Has multiple Languages to select from which is a bonus. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Oracle JDeveloper?

The program is huge. It always takes a long time to load up.

It has load and run-time issues where as if you have a huge project, it can crash and glitch out.

Configuration of the IDE is also a pain. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Pricing Insights

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Time to Implement

5 months

Perceived Cost

$$$$$
Oracle JDeveloper