Oracle Developer Suite is a suite of development tools released by the Oracle Corporation. The principal components were initially Oracle Forms and

Oracle Reports Oracle Reports is a tool for developing reports against data stored in an Oracle database. Oracle Reports consists of Oracle Reports Developer (a component of the Oracle Developer Suite) and Oracle Application Server Reports Services (a component ...

and the suite was later expanded to include

Oracle Designer Oracle Designer was Oracle's CASE tool for designing an information system and generating it. After generating the information system one is able to edit the generated code with Oracle Developer Suite. As of April 2018 this product has reache ...

and

JDeveloper JDeveloper is a freeware IDE supplied by Oracle Corporation. It offers features for development in Java, XML, SQL and PL/SQL, HTML, JavaScript, BPEL and PHP. JDeveloper covers the full development lifecycle from design through coding, deb ...

amongst others.

History

When the Oracle Relational Database Management System hit the market in 1986 - the first commercially available version was version 4 - it comprised already SQL*Forms, which was one of the first Fourth Generation Language (4GL) products marketed as such. In the early 1990s, Oracle then had two complementary tools - SQL*Forms and SQL*ReportWriter. SQL*Forms was used to develop data entry systems SQL*ReportWriter was used to developer reports Both tools were character-based and there was some integration between the two although they were sold as separate products. The developer interface became more similar over time and they were eventually bundled together as a single product named Oracle CDE (Cooperative Development Environment). The suite was later renamed to Oracle Developer and later Developer/2000 As with most products that had ''2000'' in their name, this was dropped after 1999 and the suite was renamed ''Oracle Developer Suite''. Tools such as JDeveloper were added over subsequent years. Most of the component parts of Oracle Developer Suite are now part of what Oracle calls Oracle Fusion Middleware.

Components

The name of the suite has been changed a few times. The software components that are included in the suite have also been renamed over time. {, class="wikitable" , - ! Suite Name ! Version ! Components ! Date , - , Oracle CDE , , Forms, Reports, Book, Graphics , , - , Oracle Developer , , Forms, Reports, Book, Graphics , , - , Oracle Developer 2000 , , Forms, Reports, Book, Graphics , , - , Oracle Developer Suite , , Forms, Reports, Designer, JDeveloper ,

Current status

The latest release, Oracle Developer Suite 10g consists of the following components: * Oracle

* Oracle Forms *

Oracle Discoverer Oracle Discoverer is a tool-set for ''ad hoc'' querying, reporting, data analysis, and Web-publishing for the Oracle Database environment. Oracle Corporation markets it as a business intelligence product. It was originally a stand-alone produc ...

* Oracle Software Configuration Manager * Oracle Business Intelligence Beans Oracle Technet download page for 10g says it is no longer supported (updated 5 September 2018) and no newer versions exist.

External links

Official Oracle Page
Oracle software