Application Development - The CIO's Guide to Oracle Products and Solutions - page 210

PHP

.NET

PL/SQL

Java
Frameworks

Developer Tools
for Visual Studio

Ruby and Python Java

Java IDEs

Java APIs

Java
SDKs

SQL
Developer

XML DB

Application
Ex

FIGURE 7.1
Oracle's application development tool set.

platform all build their design-time tools on top of JDeveloper. The same
IDE platform also serves as the basis of another Oracle product, SQL
Developer, which Oracle Corporation promotes specifically to PL/SQL
and database developers.
Oracle Application Express (Oracle APEX, previously named Oracle
HTML DB) is a software development environment running inside the
Oracle Database. Oracle Application Express is free of charge and can be
run inside Oracle Database Express Edition (also a free product). During
installation of Oracle Database Express Edition, Oracle APEX is installed
by default; however, Oracle APEX can be installed in any of the other
Oracle Database Editions for free. If Oracle APEX is running inside Oracle
Database Express Edition, the functionality is limited by the limitation of
Oracle Database Express Edition, e.g., CPU limit (memory limit). Using
only a web browser, an inexperienced programmer can use APEX to build
complex web applications from scratch.
Oracle SQL Developer is an IDE for working with SQL in Oracle data-
bases. Oracle Corporation provides this product free; it uses the Java
Development Kit. Oracle SQL Developer supports Oracle products and a
variety of third-party plug-ins that users may deploy to connect to non-
Oracle databases. Oracle SQL Developer works with IBM DB2, Microsoft