Will JDeveloper provide the same features for Data Modeling as Designer?
Oracle is expanding JDeveloper’s capability in this area. Already the tool provides powerful PL/SQL code editing functionality and online database support. 9.0.5 JDeveloper supports UML-based DB modeling and DDL generation. It supports Tables, Columns, Keys and Constraints. This has been in preview since August 2003. Production planned April 2004. The next increment will include support for Views, Indexes, Sequences and Synonyms, plus additional reconciliation for Tables, Columns, Constraints and Indexes. There are also plans to include User-defined types, Object Tables and XML Types, and to preview all this functionality in a release during 2004. Following that there are plans to add Procedures, Functions, Packages, Materialized Views and Materialized View Logs, and to rapidly extend JDeveloper’s database modeling to all the significant features of the Oracle database and to track these as they grow. In addition support for third party database modeling and generation through JDBC are