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Oracle Puts on a JavaServer Face


Company to lead Eclipse JSF tooling project, give away JDeveloper IDE

By Yvonne L. Lee
July 15, 2005 —  Oracle at the JavaOne conference detailed a three-pronged effort to promote the JavaServer Faces framework, which is designed to make it possible to quickly build Web applications by assembling user interface components in a page, connecting those components to a data source, and tying client-generated events to server-side event handlers.

Those efforts include giving away its JDeveloper 10g integrated development environment, leading a JSF tooling development within the Eclipse community, and submitting software to the Apache MyFaces project.

Oracle uses JSF in its JDeveloper integrated development environment. JSF uses a model-view-controller approach that separates an application’s data model, user interface and control logic into three distinct components so that modifications to the visual elements can be made with minimal impact to the data model.

Giving away its application development environment is a way to try to attract new developers to its IDE, said Rick Schultz, vice president of Oracle’s Fusion middleware.

The move, though, could be a dangerous one, said Gary Barnett, senior analyst at the research firm Ovum. “Whenever you give away your tools for free, you’re telling the market something very clear about how much you think they’re worth,” he said.

However, the move would free Oracle to concentrate on its other products, such as its database, middleware and applications, Barnett said. “Then they can focus on a smaller number of the battles, and as a consequence, improve their chances of winning them,” he said.

“They want to pull people into the Fusion platform, and they think this is the best way,” said Shawn Willett, principal analyst at Current Analysis.

Willett said that giving away JDeveloper and working on the open-source projects follow an industry trend of releasing parts of product suites to open source. “Everyone’s trying to maneuver,” he said. “They’re trying to get the open-source supporters into their product suites by outsourcing bits and pieces, or in some cases big pieces.”

Oracle does not plan to release an open-source version of JDeveloper or to make it an Eclipse plug-in, said Schultz.

“We’re trying to broaden Oracle’s reach in the Java developer community,” said Schultz, explaining why the company was participating in an Eclipse tooling effort when its own development product does not run under the Eclipse framework.

“We want Eclipse developers also to work with the key SOA technologies,” he said. Schultz characterized Eclipse as a lightweight IDE from which developers could choose plug-ins, but said that the self-contained JDeveloper also includes integrated UML modeling and BPEL process management.

In addition, Oracle will contribute elements of its Application Development Framework to the Apache Foundation’s MyFaces project, which is an effort to build a free open-source implementation of JSF-compliant components and a runtime.


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