JHeadstart Blog

With the automatic redirect of the old JHeadstart blog to the new one, the search option of the old blog at orablogs.com has become inaccessible. Therefore I have added a search on the old blog to the current JHeadstart blog site under Site Navigation.

Today, we have published the Oracle JHeadstart 10.1.3 Preview release
on the Consulting Supplement Option site. This release
is only accessible for JHeadstart license holders.



If you have a JHeadstart license, you can install the preview release as follows:

• Download the JHeadstart 10.1.3 Preview Release from the Consulting Supplement Option and save the JHS1013-INSTALL.ZIP to a local file.
  
  
• Start JDeveloper, go to Help -> Check For Updates
• Select the radio button "Install From Local File" and select the downloaded zip file as the file name.
• Press the Next button, select Oracle JHeadstart 10.1.3 and follow the instructions.

Please read the release notes carefully. We also recommend you
follow the demo / evaluation script that is shipped with this release
to get a good overview of the new release.



Note that this release requires JDeveloper 10.1.3.0.4 with Service
Update 2 installed.



Since this is preview software it is not intended
to be used in production systems.



If you do not have a JHeadstart license yet, and you would like to try
out  this preview release, you can contact your local Oracle
representative for more information on how to obtain JHeadstart licenses. If you
do not have such a contact, please send an e-mail to
idevcoe_nl@oracle.com, with your name, company, location and contact details.

One of the new features in JDeveloper 10.1.3 that I will be using a lot, is the built-in Java code formatter. In JDeveloper 10.1.2 I used the Jalopy extension, but in 10.1.3 it's a lot easier.

In the Preferences you can specify your favorite code style. By default it is set to "Java Code Conventions".



If you prefer the classic style, you can simply switch to "JDeveloper Classic":



To apply the Code Style to your Java code, right-click in the Source editor and choose Reformat.