Oracle J Developer 11G Studio

Oracle JDeveloper and Oracle Application Development Framework (ADF) 11g Release 1 (11.1.1.1.0) include many new features and also serves as a stabilization and performance update to their previous 11g releases (11.1.1.0.x). This document provides an overview of the features that are new in this release. The major feature areas in 11g Release 1 are:

Customizations and Personalization: Oracle Metadata Services (MDS) provides the backbone for new customization capabilities of ADF. With MDS and ADF, developers can build in runtime personalization (user customizations) features into applications often without having to write any code. Developers can also leverage the customization features at design-time (seeded customizations) to build applications that can be tailored to the needs of many user groups or implementation sites.
Oracle ADF Desktop Integration: With ADF Desktop Integration, you can bring the power of ADF to Microsoft Office. Users can leverage the trusted Microsoft Excel client and familiar user interface to perform bulk data manipulations and even work offline while not connected to a network. For developers, extending an ADF application to Excel uses the same familiar programming model and can leverage shared business services for improved reusability and data integrity.
Oracle SOA Suite extenion: This release re-introduces the popular design time for Oracle SOA Suite with many new features. Available from Help > Check for Updates.
Oracle WebCenter Framework and Services extension: This release re-introduces the Oracle WebCenter design time, now ready for 11g. Available from Help > Check for Updates.
Oracle Team Productivity Center: Oracle Team Productivity Center (TPC) is a brand new product bundled with JDeveloper. TPC brings application lifecycle management (ALM) tools directly where developers need it: in the IDE. TPC includes an extensible server component with bre-built connectors to popular products used in the software development lifecycle (for example, JIRA, Microsoft Projects, and Rally Software). TPC also provides a JDeveloper extension to integrate the various lifecycle management and collaboration tools into the IDE.