Introduction

Despite the modest change in version number, this 11g Release 1 (11.1.1.2.0) release includes hundreds of new features, enhancements, and usability improvements. Beyond what is documented here there were thousands of bug fixes and performance improvements as well. This release is intended to improve product quality and introduce some key features.

Among the larger features included in this release are:

New Fusion Skin: ADF Faces has a new face! The default skin has been completely overhauled and modernized. Combined with the new Quick Start layouts allow for easy creation of visually stunning applications.

Enhanced Design Time for ADF: A myriad of new features and enhancements have been introduced to improve the development experience building web applications with ADF Faces and ADF DVT components.

UML 2.2: JDeveloper's UML modelers have been updated to support UML 2.2 notation and meta-model.

Maven: (The Maven extension is a Developer Preview at the time of publishing this document.) Many development organizations are leveraging the capabilities of Maven as part of their build and continuous integration infrastructure. Now we have many of the Maven features customers are using available directly from the IDE.

As always, we welcome your feedback on the OTN forum .

Previous Version? If you are looking for the new feature list for 11.1.1.1 or 11.1.1.0 , those are posted separately.

New In This Release

JDeveloper Core IDE

Feature Area	Feature	Description	Screenshot
Application Overview	Redesigned UI	The Application Overview has been redesigned for improved usability and performance.
	Checklist	A new Checklist tab has been added to the application overview viewer. The Checklist is designed to guide users (especially new users) through typical steps in building an application. Initially, there is a checklist only for new applications based on the "Fusion Web Application" application template.
Application Navigator	Create package	Create and delete packages and folders directly from the Application Navigator
Keymaps	Eclipse Keymap	New Eclipse keymap maps the default Eclipse keymaps to equivalent functionality in JDeveloper
User Feedback	Usage Tracking	Automatically records certain events that occur during the normal usage of the product. If you opt-in to this feature, at specific intervals, JDeveloper can send some summarized information about how you use the product to Oracle. We can then use this information to improve the product.
Extension Development	Multiple Classloaders	Extension developers can now declaratively request a separate classloader. This can help eliminate conflicts that can occur between mutliple extensions needed different versions of the same library.
Migration	Improved Experience	JDeveloper now provides a list of previous installations to migrate settings from
Property Inspector	UI Enhnancement	Property Inspector provides improved access to help and actions that can be launched for a given property
SVN 1.6	Changelist	Support SVN changelist functionality
	Merge Track	Use a graphical version tree to provide enhanced merge process
	Sparse directory	Allow checkout with selectable 'depth' from directory structure
	svn+ssh:// Protocol	SSH client access via password prompt or public private key validation.
	Revision Label Browser	Browse and review differences between SVN revision labels
Compare	Java Structure Compare	Browse using structure compare window
Serena	Enterprise level support	Support local (user) checkout and branching and merge
Perforce	Connections	Support multiple Perforce connections
SCM Integration	TPC Integration	Select TPC work items to associate SCM checkins with (see below)

Java Coding and Agile Development

Feature Area	Feature	Description	Screenshot
Apache Maven	Maven Support	Developer Preview! Available as a separately downloadable extension. Integrated with Maven 2.1, but pluggable for any 2.x Maven version Import POM (Create project/application from POM) Create a POM for a project or application Advanced editor functions (syntax highlighting, code completion, etc) for POM editing Configure and run goals Create and use archetypes Configure Maven version, repositories, command-line options, environment variables, etc Specify dependencies from repository
Java Editor	Code Templates overhaul	Code templates have undergone a needed overhaul with the following changes: Templates are scoped for the editor they are intended for Support for import/export Several new templates and modernization of existing templates Extension writers can now easily provide their own templates Better help for variable processors Quick doc popup shows example of template from template insight
	Surround with... improvements	Surround with now supports user- and extension-defined templates templates. Several new Surround with templates have been added, including a Surround with... Block comment option
	Block tinting	Subtle highlighting of various Java structures
	Annotation folding	Annotations in code editor can be collapsed similar to other code structures
	Parameter tabbing	When using code completion, the editor now auto-fills parameters based on names in the method source. You can quickly tab between parameters, similar to a code template.
	Auto-import action tip	Auto-import (for unambiguous import statements) has been turned on by default and now include an action tip to cancel the import before it happens
	Declaration Insight	When declaring local variables from method calls, declaration insight can automatically add the declaration and assignment code as well as completing the method call.
	Code editor hovers	Additional information about the object under the cursor can be popped up by hovering over it and (optionally) pressing a modifier key.
JUnit	Version Upgrade	JUnit libraries have been updated to version 4.5

Debugging and Profiling

Feature Area	Feature	Description	Screenshot
Debugger	Threads drop down	Drop down list of threads in the stack window
Debugger	Array Navigation	For arrays with more than 20 elements, a series of navigation buttons appear in the debugger appear to page through entries
Debugger	Extended variable tooltip	An enhanced tooltip in the editor and data windows provides quick drill-down to details about the selected variable
Profiler	UI Enhancements	A number of user experience enhnancements have been introduced, including the ability to search within profiling results and the ability to save column layouts
Profiler	hprof analysis	Ability to import and display and analyze hprof dumps in the memory profiler
Profiler	Dynamic attach	Ability to attach and detach dynamically to a running process. The UI for attaching has been updated to improve user experience.

Database Development

Feature Area	Feature	Description	Screenshot
Database Transform	UML Class to DB Transform	Transform UML Class models to offline database objects
Oracle Database support	XMLType	Additional storage options
	Tablespace	Support modeling tablespaces and their use in database objects such as tables (including global temporary tables), indexes, materialized views etc.
	Hash Partitions	Create hash partitions by quantity on indexes
	Check Constraints	Improved feedback on syntax checking on check constraints
Foreign Database support	DB2 9.5	Upgraded support and dedicated connection type and UI
	SQL Server 2008	Upgraded support and dedicated connection type and UI
	Test and Explain Plan	Use with view queries against live (online) database
Offline data model	User defined properties	Support added for multi-line and multi-select user defined properties
	Performance	Offline database now uses the IDE indexing system to get better performance
Modeler	Templates	Use database object templates in a diagram
	Index editing	Inline editing of indexes available on a diagram
	Tabluar Layout	Columns, constraints, SELECT and FROM objects displayed in columned lists
Team Development	Compare and Merge	New UI to enable compare and merging of database objects
Reporting	Pre-built reports	Use reports such as 'all tables with no PK' as reference point for more reports
	Customize HTML	Add custom HTML to the body of a generated report
Impact Analysis	Find Usages and Delete	Offline database objects referenced by ADF Business Components, EJB or Toplink mappings are shown when using Find Usages or Delete
SQL Worksheet	SQL* Scripts	Run scripts (including parameters) with optional record output to HTML
SQL Parser	XMLTABLE support	Syntax support in SQL parser

Java EE Development and Deployment

Feature Area	Feature	Description	Screenshot
EJB / Bean Data Control	Paging	Page through sets of results
	Query and Sort	Query and Sort support
EJB	SDO	SDO development support for EJB and POJOS
	JUnit Testing	JUnit Fixture set up and tear down for EJB 3.0
Deployment Descriptors	Flat editors	New flat editors for the following: weblogic-application.xml weblogic-ejb-jar.xml weblogic-jdbc.xml weblogic-web-services.xml jazn-data.xml
WLS Integration	UI Improvements	Ability to deploy shared libraries to WLS Simplied deployment wizard Create new deployment plan
	Improved Application Server Navigator	Use Application Navigator to manage domain creation, starting/stopping server instance, and managing the properties of configured server instances. You can also right-click on a connection and launch WLS Console.
Application Server Integration	UI Improvements	Link to display output of exploded directory in log window Link to display archive from log window

XML Development

Feature Area	Feature	Description	Screenshot
XML Documents	XPath Analyzer	Search XML documents using an XPath expression
XML Schema	Redefine	Support Redefine element in visual editor
	Load remote	Load remote XML schema per editor, per session

UML Development

Feature Area	Feature	Description	Screenshot
Activity Modeler	UML 2.2 compliance	The UML Activity Modeler now supports the UML 2.x notation and meta model
Class Modeler	Datatypes and Enumerations	UML Datatypes and UML Enumerations are now supported as elements in Class diagrams and the meta model
	Filtering of UML properties	The dialogs and property inspector now have an option to restrict the number of visible UML properties to the most commonly used ones
	UML <-> Java Transformation	The generation and reverse engineering of Java code has now been enabled for UML 2.2 Class diagrams
	Show Related	The diagrammer has a menu item that allows all related elements for a selected element to be shown
Use Case Modeler	HTML import/export	The content of Use Case diagrams can be exported and imported to and from HTML for editing in external HTML editors, and for publication of use case catalogs on web servers
UML Framework	Multiple persistence paths	The UML 2.2 modeler path setting can contain multiple file system paths, enabling the use of models as libraries
	Property Inspector	The property inspector has now been enabled for all UML 2.2 diagrammers
	Structure Explorer	The structure explorer window has now been enabled for all UML 2.2 diagrammers

Web Services Development

Feature Area	Feature	Description	Screenshot
Service Development	REST Services	REST services can be coded and deployed to the integrated WLS 11g R1 or to standalone WLS 11g R1 servers. It should be noted that (1) the developer needs to install the Jersey REST run-time library on the server to enable this functionality, and (2) no wizard support exists for REST services
Client Development	Developing Relocatable Clients	Client proxies can be moved between different machines by updating the endpoint url in the Catalog file that gets generated for JAX-WS clients (rather than embedding the endpoint in the client code)
	JAX-RPC Client Class	A client class that interacts with the proxy is now generated for JAX-RPC clients. This feature existed previously for OC4J clients, and is now re-enabled for WLS clients
Policy	Wizard for Security Configuration	A wizard has been added that assists the user in installing a keystore, insert the right paths and add various passwords (encryption, signature, ..) on the client and the server. This makes it easier for users to support more advanced security scenarios in service, proxy and http analyzer scenarios
	JAX-WS Client Security	The proxy wizard now automatically configures the correct client security based on the policy defined in the WSDL
UDDI	UDDI Publishing	Functionality has been added to publish the WSDL of a deployed service to any UDDI v.3 compliant repository
HTTP Analyzer	Support for Policy	The developer can now set WS-Policy headers in the HTTP Analyzer, enabling the testing of Web Services that are configured with advanced security protocols (beyond basic username/password)
	REST Support	The content type of the message can be viewed, and syntax feedback is provided for both JSON and XML messages. The analyzer understands HATEOAS and therefore any hyperlink in XML or JSON messages is converted into a clickable link. The analyzer also understands WADL documents so each resource is converted into a clickable link with the correct content type on the request message

Web and Ajax Development

Feature Area	Feature	Description	Screenshot
JSON	JSON Support	New support for editing JSON files, including creating new JSON files, syntax highlighting, structure pane, brace matching, and code folding
JavaScript Debugging	Firefox 3.0	browser plugin for JavaScript debugging from JDeveloper has been upgraded to support Firefox 3.0
CSS	General Editor enhancements	Syntax validation and Code Insight for CSS <style> block inside other editors Refactor > Extract <style> block to CSS file Toggle block/line comments Brace matching Code formatting <style> element in Component Palette
JavaScript	General Editor enhancements	Code formatting of JavaScript inside HTML/JSP files Go to Declaration for JavaScript properties Refactor > Move JavaScript file Quick Doc for JavaScript Compact JavaScript JavaScript Code templates
	JSDoc support	Code Insight for JSDoc tags Auto-generation of JSDoc for JavaScript functions and classes
HTML/JSP	General Editor enhancements	Code templates for HTML and JSP tags Code Insight for Java in JSP page Quick Doc for HTML tags Block comment for HTML and JSP content
Expression Language (EL)	Navigation	Navigate (Go to Declaration) from EL in source to managed bean source
JSF Visual Editor	User Experience polish	A number of enhancements to the JSF visual editor have been made to improve the user experience: Improved feedback on drop zones Clearer presentation of the name of the object under cursor Significant performance improvements Improved ability to work with components that can be collapsed (ShowDetailItem)
	Design-time EL execution	EL that is resolvable at design time now renders in the visual editor. New options for handling EL that cannot be resolved at design time include: hide the EL completely, show dummy data, show the EL (either in full or abbreviated form).

Oracle Toplink Development

Feature Area	Feature	Description	Screenshot

Details coming soon!

ADF Framework

Feature Area	Feature	Description	Screenshot
ADF Debugger	Improved ADF BC content in ADF Data Window	While debugging, view business components data in a much more intuitive, easy-to-read format
ADF Debugger	Improved ADF databinding content in ADF Data Window	While debugging, view data controls, bindings and other pagedef content in a much more intuitive, easy-to-read format
ADF Debugger	New breakpoint types	Set "after" breakpoints on bindings and executables in a pagedef file.
Security	Security context properties in EL picker	Select security context properties such as #{securityContext.userInRole['roleList']} from the expression language picker.
ADF Libraries	Improved management of secondary dependencies	When an ADF library is imported into a project, dependencies of components in the library (secondary dependencies) are added to the project's classpath but are not exposed as design-time artifacts. This means that the consumer of the library doesn't need to do extra work to track down dependencies, while at the same time the data control pane and component palette are not cluttered with components that were never intend for reuse by the author of the library.
Logging and Diagnostics	Simplified logging and diagnostics	New logging configuration editor to configure behavior for specific loggers. New log analyzer to filter, sort and search the content of log files.

ADF Faces

Feature Area	Feature	Description	Screenshot
dvt:sparkchart	New component	Sparkcharts are simple, condensed graphs that display trends or variations, often in the column of a table. Sparkcharts are often displayed in a dashboard to provide additional context to a data-dense display.
dvt:graph	Graph enhancements	Graph marker tooltip template Separate color and shape control for scatter graph markers Enhanced annotation functionality Ability to add gradients to reference areas Names under markers Popup support Tabular data display option for graphs in screen reader mode Font skinning for graph Graph interactive pie slice behavior Small form factor graphs Hide and show series data Graph item selection with feedback Minor tick marks Scrollable legend O1 rotated labels Pan plot area scrolling
dvt:gauge	Gauge enhancement	Small form factor gauges Popup support More gauge tooltips
dvt:projectGantt dvt:schedulingGantt	Gantt enhancements	Alignment of date field and label Expand all, collapse all attribute Zoom using scroll wheel Ability to drag pan the chart area Initial focus on current date on load Support for custom timescales Attach right-most column to splitter Enhanced interactivity when moving and resizing bars
dvt:pivotTable	PivotTable enhancements	PivotFilterBar - a new component integrated with the PivotTable that allows a user to page through layer (dimension) values Export to Excel/HTML Header cell stamping for read-only components Enhanced cell stamping
dvt:hierarchyViewer	Hierarchy Viewer enhancements	Search support Support for circle layout Node enhancements (hover window reflect the shape of a node) Link enhancements (link styles, labels, rendered property) Overriding built-in node actions
ADF DVT Design Time	ADF DVT design time enhancements	Improved ADF DVT Graph design time experience - new built in editor for graphs Easy setup of ADF DVT graph for master-detail scenarios New Pivot Table design time wizard: allows the user to specify drilling, sorting, aggregation, and configuration of the new PivotFilterBar and category display names Design time for configuring search controls in Hierarchy Viewer ADF DVT Graph and Gauge integration with ADS proxy framework
New Skins	User Interface Improvements	Two new skins have been added for your use, the fusion and fusion-projector skins.  The new 'fusion' skin provides a significant amount of styling over the blafplus-rich and blafplus-medium skins.  Some of the styling includes a new gradient blue background on all pages.  The fusion projector skin is available to you when you want to demonstrate your application to an audience using a projector.   The colors are intensified and display better on a projector (particularly older models).
New Carousel Component	New Component	af:carousel and af:carouselItem.  You can now jazz up your pages with our new carousel component.  Display a set of images through a carousel, an animation effect that switches the emphasis successively between images as the user moves the mouse across them.
Context Info	New Component	Add context to your page fields.   With the new af:contextInfo tag, you can provide additional information to the user that they can access by mousing over a context icon associated with the field.
Go Image Link	New Component	The new goImageLink component renders a HTML link with an icon support, that navigates directly to another location instead of delivering an action.
Animation	User Interface Improvements	New Animations and Interactions were added to improve the overall look and feel of the application.  Components to look for new animation on are the panelSplitter, panelAccordion, table, pieGraph and panelDashboard.
Emailable Page Support	New Feature	We now support Emailable Page mode for a limited set of components and agents. Since email agents have limited css capabilities, and do not support external stylesheets, the page renders differently when it is in email mode.
Page Layout	Page Layout Enhancements	We have delivered three new feature to help improve the design time experience for building pages.   Dynamic Tab Pattern.  We have delivered a Dynamic Tab Page Template to assist you with implementing the popular pattern of dynamic tabs Quick Start Layouts have been improved  Added the ability for customers to create their own extension and enter their own quick start layouts to appear in the new page gallery.  Added the ability to apply themes to a quick start layout that will provide additional styling.
Dialog Framework Enhancements	Dialog Framework Enhancements	Modal and Modeless modes Choice of inline popup or new browser window Option to allow manual resizing Warn user when attempt to navigate away from  parent page

ADF Business Components

Feature Area	Feature	Description	Screenshot
Entity Object Design Time	Enhancements to business rules editing	New Business Rules tab in the overview editor shows all business rules in one place, including default and transient value expressions. Search and filter business rules. View and edit Groovy expressions in the overview editor. Syntax highlighting for Groovy expressions.
Business Components Tester	Enhancements	Pick up business components changes without restarting the tester (just rebuild and click Refresh).  Test view object and view row methods.
Services	Asynchronous web service methods	Generate asynchronous web service methods for custom application module methods and view object operations.
View Object Design Time	Customize attribute display overview editor	In the view object overview editor, sort the list of attributes by any column. Select any property to display as a column in the table.
View Object Runtime	Auto Refresh property	Setting the Auto Refresh property on a view object causes the view object to refresh its dataset if change notifications are received from the database.
View Object Design Time	Configure additional UI hints for LOVs	Limit the number of attributes shown in the combo box of a Combo Box with LOV component.
Runtime	Performance Improvement	Reduced memory consumption entity objects with large numbers of attributes. Performance enhancements for LOVs with dialogs.
Design Time	Performance Improvement	Improved performance when loading business components at design time.

ADF Databinding

Feature Area	Feature	Description	Screenshot
Contextual Events	Simplified contextual events	Create an ADF contextual event from a faces button, managed bean or JavaScript as well as from any ADF value binding, action binding or navigator binding. Edit contextual events using the new contextual events tab in the bindings editor. Declaratively specify raise conditions for an event. Pass a binding value, data control method return, managed bean method return value, string literal or other expression as an event payload. Choose to subscribe to an event only if it's raised by a particular component. Declaratively specify handle conditions for an event.
Data Controls	Paging support for EJB and JavaBean data controls	New filtering, sorting and range paging APIs for non-ADF BC data controls.

ADF Controller (Task Flow)

Feature Area	Feature	Description	Screenshot
Task Flow Diagram	Task flow call activity thumbnail	Show Thumbnail option on a task flow call activity pops up a smaller diagram of the task flow being called.
Task Flow Diagram	Expanded view	Expand All Thumbnails option on a task flow diagram shows a thumbnail view of all pages.
Task Flow Diagram	Method call activity enhancements	Double-click a new method activity to create a new JavaBean or select a method on an existing JavaBean. Double-click an existing method activity to navigate to its JavaBean or action binding. Create a new pagedef file from a new method activity.
Task Flow Diagram	Pagedef with router or task flow call activity	Create a new pagedef file, or go to the existing pagedef file, for a router or task flow call activity.
Regions	Defer task flow activation in a region	Improve application performance by deferring the activation of a task flow in a region until it's needed.
Task Flow Security	Prevent task flows being invoked via a URL	URL Invoke property on a bounded task flow allows you to prevent the task flow from being invoked with a URL. The default behavior is to disallow invocation via a URL if the task flow's default activity is a method. This feature is designed to prevent cross-site-script forgery attacks.
Task Flow Call Activity	Dynamic task flow call	Set the target task flow of a task flow call activity to an EL string which is evaluated at run time.
Parent Action Activity	Dynamic parent action navigation	Set the parent outcome of a parent action activity to an EL string which is evaluated at run time.

ADF Desktop Integration

Feature Area	Feature	Description	Screenshot
Design time	Placeholder Data control	Ability to use a Placeholder Data control at design time
Runtime	java.sql.Date	Improved handling for java.sql.Date
	Updated look and feel	Updated the appearance to mirror the new ADF Faces "Fusion FX" look and feel
	Dynamic Columns	Enhanced Dynamic columns support: LOV components dependent LOVs View Objects using declarative SQL mode

ADF Mobile

Feature Area	Feature	Description	Screenshot
Mobile Browser Client	Browser capabilities exposed in EL	Page developers can use EL expressions to determine browser capabilities including device type,  browser name and version, narrow screen support and JavaScript support
Mobile Browser Client	Improved support for narrow screens	Page rendering is automatically optimized for narrow screen devices. This includes optimized rendering of components such as breadcrumbs, input text and navigation pane.

Oracle Team Productivity Center

Feature Area	Feature	Description	Screenshot
Work Item	Change Sets	Associate SCM revisions and files with work items on SCM check-in. Display file contents from Changes tab of work item
	Active Work Item	Designate one work item as 'active' for easy retrieval and usage
Connectors	Bugzilla	Shipped connector enabling integration with Bugzilla repositories
	Task	Built in task repository to create, edit and track team tasks