CHAPTER 3IDE Tools

Intelligence … is the faculty of making artificial objects,especially tools to make tools.

—Henri Bergson (1859–1941),L’Evolution Créatrice (Creative Evolution)

The preceding chapter provided an overview of the JDeveloper Integrated Development Environment (IDE). Since all JDeveloper tools appear within the IDE windows and you use the main menu and main toolbar to interact with files, the information in Chapter 2 serves as a solid foundation for understanding the best way to work with the tools.

This chapter builds upon the foundation from Chapter 2 by explaining details about the main JDeveloper tools that you use to create, view, and edit code. It introduces the major development features of the tools as they appear in the ...

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