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Why not write one of your own? You might have a utility that you use all the time or some functionality that would make your daily tasks easier.
Kris Rice has a few entries on his blog on writing extensions, so take a look there and see if there is something that might trigger an idea or offer some advice. Of course you can also take a look at the extensions written by the JDeveloper team and user-base, as their exchange has been running for a few releases now.
Here are the links to Kris's extension entries:
- SQL Developer Extensions and Eclipse (3 May)
- XMLTypes, Excel and an Example Extension (6 March)
- Enhanced Excel and Save Snippets (8 March)
- Forgotten datatypes (15 Feb)
- Forgotten datatypes part 2.... (16 Feb)
...and let me know if there is anything you've written that we can add to the site.
11 comments:
Thanks for the post Sue. I was resisting to try SQL Developer until it matures. After so many talks around it I thought it matured enough to try (plus, I saw cool Insider plugin).
So I downloaded it - started no problem. Downloaded and copied Insider and Error Lookup plugins. Restarted SQL Developed and could only find Error Lookup plugin. No way I could find Insider somewhere in the menus. Ok... checked the forum quickly - couldn't find anything relevant. Tried to restart - even Error Lookup has gone.
My conclusion - either it's still not stable enough to use or not intuitive enough to use without thinking (read me is stupid enough to miss something obvious).
And just now finishing this comment I finally located Insider plugin in context menu of connection - I know for sure it wasn't there first time while Error Lookup was still there. Funny but both extensions are "Loaded" in "About" dialog. Strange...
Anyway, good work. Keep it up and getting stable! ;-)
Thank you for your comment and feedback. I am glad that you have tried the product at last. I do wish you'd tried it "clean" first. That you'd be able to discern whether it's the product or the extension is the problem!
I have tried other plugins for other products and SQL Developer, and while I am hestitant to blame other software, I have found the different extensions definitely have a different impact. i.e. some are better than others! :-)
Anyway, you should also know that the team is working on making adding Snippets and Extensions more user friendly all the time.
I feel confident that you will find the product grows from stength to strength.
For more help on the Fourth Elephant plugins, do contact them.
Regards
Sue
In no way I meant to blame anyone or play fingerpointing and sorry if it looked like that. I thought this would be a good example from the fields. :-)
I appreciate a lot the work being done to deliver these products for free to the community. Thanks again and keep it going!
Btw, I am surprised but SQL Developer starts fater that latest versions of TOAD (8+ versions are quite heavy). At least, on my laptop. I will try to keep handy and see if there is anything I miss.
:-) That's me just being a bit sensitive. ALL feedback is always appreciated and we should ensure extensions and products are stable.
Thanks again.
Sue
Sue, thanks for your comment on the talk. You didn't mention the "over 40" remark I made which I thought would be a topic all on its own.
I just got back to Canberra to minus 7c weather and short days (which is probably considered warm for Scotland).
I have written a number of papers (some anon) and I will try and put them up as I do like to rock the boat and get those DBAs and Developers thinking.
One point which I would like to add is that I strongly believe that when it comes to development in Oracle, PL/SQL should be the default choice for all programming, and the developers should have to make a good business case for using anything else, and that case should not start with the line "we don't know PL/SQL we only know product X".
As soon as you have your papers published, let's have those links - I'm sure others will be interested.
Maybe I should write about the over 40's... let me think on that!
Sue
Christopher,
Thank you for your positive comment and observation. I am hoping to produce an article on "Extensions: Getting started". I too am no Java guru, so let's see what we can do.
Regards
Sue
Sue, I found your blog when I'm searching SQL Developer extension for Subversion. I managed to do your HelloX sample. Do you know how to install Subversion extension on SQL Developer? It's easy with JDeveloper but I have no idea how to do it with SQL Developer. Any idea?
Best regards Miro
Sue
I found your blog when I was searching for Subversion extension for SQL Developer. I managed to deploy HelloX sample to SQL Developer but I don't have any idea how to do it with Subversion extension. It's easy to install Subversion extension on JDeveloper. Do you know is it possible to install it on SQL Developer and how? Thx for any help.
Miro,
For more complex queries and extensions you should post queries on the SQL Developer Forum
However, as far as the Subversion Extension, JDeveloper has a support for version control tools tools such as Subversion. The SQL Developer team are currently working on support for Subversion in SQL Developer. This should be available in the next release.
Regards
Sue
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