[ANN] New developer poll on the JDev homepage

Question

What are your JSP plans?
Let us know by answering the survey on the JDeveloper home page:
http://otn.oracle.com/products/jdev
Previous Survey results:
JDeveloper DB modeler 16.2%
Oracle Designer 26.7%
ERWin 26.3%
Embarcadero 6.1%
Other 24.7%

Answer 1

The comments on the blog center on why Hibernate was not included, which I would have liked to see also.
What I wonder about is what these numbers actually represent. I think you would get very different results from a poll on TheServerSide or anywhere other than technet. I mean, I would never have heard of BC4J if we hadn't tried JDeveloper as an IDE, which we probably wouldn't have bothered with if we didn't already license a lot of technology from Oracle, making JDeveloper a no-additional-cost solution for us. Similarly for TopLink, if we didn't already have a Smalltalk application that uses TopLink, I think it would have been unlikely that we would have understood how much it can do for us. And even then, we weren't going to use the Java version until Oracle bought it and it suddenly became another no-additional-cost solution. What I'm saying is, if we weren't already an Oracle shop, we'd probably be working with Eclipse and Hibernate. I actually think that JDeveloper and TopLink will provide us with a more robust solution, but I'd feel better about the long run if I thought that this approach was gaining more acceptance in the industry as a whole.
TopLink may have brought a fair number of not-necessarily-Oracle people with it, but I'd like to see JDeveloper and UIX used by people who don't already think of themselves as an 'Oracle shop'. If we were using BC4J, I'd feel the same way about that. Unfortunately for JDeveloper, unless Oracle can find a way to market it better, I think the wider acceptance of technologies like UIX and BC4J may not come until you can use them as easily with other IDEs as you can with JDeveloper.