As part of the announcement on July 1st around Oracle Fusion Middleware 11g, Oracle released the next point release (11.1.1.0.2 => 11.1.1.1.0) of JDeveloper. And while the change is only in the fourth digit, there are still quite a few very interesting new options, features and components new in this release. In this article a brief and by no means exhaustive list of some of those new things as I have discovered them in the last few months.

This release 11.1.1.1.0 release had the internal code name of Bulldog and I have been referring to that name a few times before. One of the important changes since its predecessor (11.1.1.0.0, internally known as Boxer) is that now the full Fusion Middleware 11g R1 release is available, for which JDeveloper provides the design time environment. So the Bulldog release launched today has the design time for SOA Suite 11g and WebCenter 11g, to name but two. The WebLogic server that ships with this JDeveloper release is now the latest 10.3.1 – the foundation for FMW 11g.

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