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16.2.3 Oracle Developer Suite
Oracle Developer is a sophisticated suite component that facilitates rapid application
development (RAD). Like most RAD tools, Oracle Developer provides several facilities in
a GUI environment. Following is a summary of the prominent subsystems:
Oracle Business Intelligence Beans:
This subsystem provides
a set of standard JavaBeans components to build business
intelligence applications.
Oracle Designer:
This subsystem provides a complete toolset
to be employed in modeling the requirements and design of
enterprise applications.
Oracle Discoverer:
This subsystem is an ad-hoc query
and reporting tool for publishing information drawn from
data marts, data warehouses, online transaction processing
systems, and other Oracle back-end systems on the Web.
Oracle Forms Developer:
This subsystem is a PL/SQL-based
development environment for building GUI-based applications
that may be designed to be
Web-accessible
(see chapter 25).
Oracle JDeveloper:
This subsystem is a Java-based alternative
to the Forms Developer, facilitating the development of a
GUI-based application that may be designed to be
Web-accessible. It provides an Interactive Development
Environment (IDE) that mirrors that of the Sun Microsystems
equivalent product called NetBeans. With the recent
acquisition of Sun Microsystems, we can expect further
improvement of the related services and capabilities in this
area. This is a huge acquisition for the Oracle Corporation.
Oracle Reports Developer:
This subsystem provides
report-building tools for designing attractive reports by pulling
information from an Oracle database.
Oracle Software Configuration Manager:
This subsystem
facilitates management of structured and unstructured data and
all types of files throughout the software development life cycle.
Oracle Warehouse Builder:
This subsystem provides tools
required for the construction and management of a
data
warehouse
(see chapter 24).
16.2.4 Oracle Enterprise Manager Database Control
and SQL Developer
The Oracle Enterprise Manager (OEM) Database Control is a component that provides
a user friendly GUI environment for the DBA to perform administrative work on the
database. Through OEM, the DBA can manage a given database, or a group of
