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REDWOOD SHORES, CA -- Continuing its commitment to provide developers with the latest Internet technology, Oracle Corp. (Nasdaq: ORCL), the largest provider of software for e-business, today announced early access to Oracle9i JDeveloper through an Early Adopter Program (EAP) from Oracle(R) Technology Network (OTN) -- the industry's first Developer Services Provider. More than 1.7 million members of OTN can immediately begin to develop Java2 Enterprise Edition (J2EE) and extensible Markup Language (XML) based applications and Web services with Oracle9i JDeveloper -- the first component of Oracle's new generation of application development tools that takes advantage of Oracle9iApplication Server and Oracle9i Database. Written entirely in Java for seamless cross-platform development, the new Oracle9i JDeveloper delivers the industry's first complete and integrated J2EE and XML team development environment for the rapid delivery of Web services and transactional applications accessible through Web, wireless and voice interfaces. Oracle9i JDeveloper changes the face of J2EE application development by combining traditional Java programming techniques with the latest modeling approaches in a single, integrated development environment for complete development lifecycle management. "As e-business applications become more and more complex with fast-moving requirements and as J2EE has now proven its stability to make applications totally interoperable, Java developers have to rely on modeling to remain productive and to meet end users expectations," said Mark Driver, research director at Gartner. "Standalone, traditional Java tools no longer dominate the marketplace. What developers need is a modeling environment tightly integrated with their Java development environment." Single Integrated Development Environment for Complete Development Lifecycle Support -- "Three-way" UML Modeling and Generation -- Oracle9i JDeveloper introduces Unified Modeling Language (UML) modeling to Java and XML developers who can now model and generate business objects and processes of e-business applications using unique "three-way" synchronization between code, models and wizards regardless of where changes are made. -- Improved code quality and performance -- Oracle9i JDeveloper includes integrated performance and memory analysis tools for tracking performance problems, memory leaks and deadlocks. -- Team Development Support -- Oracle9i JDeveloper seamlessly enables organizations to manage multi-developer, multi-stream projects of any size and any complexity. Fast and Easy J2EE Development and Deployment -- Latest J2EE Support -- Oracle9i JDeveloper supports the latest J2EE specifications, including JavaServer Pages 1.1 (JSP) and tag libraries, Servlets 2.2 and Enterprise JavaBeans (EJB) 1.1. -- Rapid Application Development -- Oracle9i JDeveloper with Oracle Business Components for Java, a 100 percent end-to-end J2EE and XML framework that implements Sun Microsystems' design patterns, helps to dramatically simplify J2EE application development and enables developers to spend more time on enhancing the business value of their applications and less time worrying about underlying code. -- Optimization for Transactional J2EE Applications -- Oracle9i JDeveloper with Oracle Business Components for Java optimizes the performance of transactional J2EE applications with its sophisticated object-relational mapping technology for SQL and XML data sources. -- One-step, Wizard-based Deployment -- Oracle9i JDeveloper is specifically optimized to leverage the new J2EE capabilities of Oracle9i Application Server for instant J2EE application deployment. Integrated Java, XML and SQL Development -- Internet Applications for Java and Beyond -- Oracle9i JDeveloper offers unique Java, XML, and SQL integration to meet the fast growing needs of Internet developers looking to build next-generation J2EE applications and Web services. -- Built-in XML Schema Editor -- Oracle9i JDeveloper includes an integrated XML schema-driven syntax editor which enables Java and XML developers to leverage the latest specifications defined by the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) to create XML-based Internet applications. -- Support for J2EE Web Services -- Oracle9i JDeveloper enables developers to create Web services from Java classes, Enterprise Java Beans (EJB), Oracle Business Components for Java and PL/SQL procedures. For additional information visit www.oracle.com