Disappointed with 10g JDeveloper preview version

Question

I consistently use and recommend Oracle products to my co-workers. But I am disappointed with the latest JDeveloper, thanks to many bugs. I could not find basic items like remove from project menu item. The files I open are not getting added to the project. And the continuing lack of decent support for PL/SQL. If Oracle can't support PL/SQL, in its IDE that is hard to believe. This forces me to use 2 IDEs. One for Java and another one for PL/SQL. Hope it will get better in the production release.

Answer 1

All files from a folder are automatically added to a project, it is automatically recompiled with a build command. The file can be "invisible". To see a new file in the navigator, use the refresh button.
There should be several changes to this behaviour:
1) refresh is quite slow on a big project. It should be possible to select a package and refresh only the files inside the folder
2) When a file is opened, it should be automatically added into the navigator of the current project.
3) To remove a file from a project, it seems there are only 2 solutions:
3a) Use a different hierarchy tree for each project (ie: locate each project source in a different folder) and carefully remove the files you don't need. Huge pain with versioning and check out module. You have to check out each file individually.
3b) refactoring. Move the file in a new folder and exclude that "subfolder" in the project content (first page in the project properties).
In the long term this refactoring could be a good thing. In the short term it is a major pain because most projects use intertwined packages.
Some examples:
1) I use only one hierarchy tree for several projects. I have to include much more libraries in my projects to be able to compile. For example, I have a swing application. In a package used by this swing application, one class does an import of some j2ee stuff.
I never use this class in the swing application. I have to include all the j2ee libs to compile my project.
2) I have a factory constructor interface dealing with java.sql.DataSource.
I have several implementations depending on the target jdbc driver (classes12.jar ojdbc14.jar,mysql-connector-java-2.0.14-bin.jar,...). Each implementation is put in the same folder:
/mycompany/mypackage/MyDataSourceOracle14.java
/mycompany/mypackage/MyDataSourceOracle12.java
/mycompany/mypackage/MyDataSourceMySql.java
The implementation with classes12.jar is incompatible with the one with ojdbc14.jar.
With JDev 10g preview, there is just no way to rebuild my project. I had to refactor and use subfolders:
/mycompany/mypackage/Oracle14/MyDataSourceOracle14.java
/mycompany/mypackage/Oracle12/MyDataSourceOracle12.java
/mycompany/mypackage/MySql/MyDataSourceMySql.java