Databases Reference
In-Depth Information
Setting the preferences
There are many coniguraions, as shown in the following list, related to the IDE that can be
configured using the
Preferences
menu in
Tools
:
Environment
: This secion will allow the user to change the look and feel and
theme of the page, give an opion to save the ile on exit, check for modiied
iles, and so on. This secion has the following opions:
Dockable windows
: This customizes how the docking behaves.
Local History
: This enables local history for the files stored in the user
directory.
Log
: This enables logging and specifies where to save the logfile.
Also, it customizes the size, lines, and color of the log file.
External Editor
: A user can set a preference to open the files in either the
external editor or the applicaion. For example, PDF iles will be preferred
to be opened in an Adobe applicaion.
File Types
: This will let the user decide which extensions can be opened by
JDeveloper and which editors are used to open the files within JDeveloper.
Setting the
Default Editor
option to source view will increase
the performance in opening up the files within JDeveloper.
Shortcut Keys
: This is used to conigure the shortcut keys for diferent operaions
within the IDE.
You can have external applicaions or tools conigured within your IDE using the
External
Tools
menu in
Tools
.
Knowing the IDE components
JDeveloper IDE consists of dockable windows and components that will help in developing
ADF applicaions eiciently. Users may take advantage of these windows to keep track of
the changes made, switch between windows, idenify and modify paricular resources that
are part of the applicaion.
Let us see some of the panels and components that are very useful for developing any
ADF applicaion. Remember that some of these panels are acive only when you have
an applicaion open in your workspace. When you open the JDeveloper IDE it will look
like the following screenshot:
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