Internet application developers experience dramatic productivity increases using the modeling and design capture capabilities of Oracle9iDS. Java developers benefit from UML modeling, which is described on page 4 in this section of the quick tour. For server design, generation, and capture, Oracle9iDS offers Oracle9i Designer.

Oracle9i Designer is a toolset for analyzing business requirements and for designing and generating systems that meet those requirements. It incorporates support for process modeling, system analysis, database and program (module) design, and full database and program generation.

Designer offers visual modeling tools that provides an intuitive and task-oriented environment for accurately and quickly capturing and modeling the business processes, flows, hierarchies, and data requirements of both new and legacy applications.

From these models created, powerful labor-saving transformers then automatically build the database schema and complete module definitions of screens, reports, and menus for your default database and application designs.

An integrated multi-user repository is used to store and manage the application metadata. Generators automatically construct high-quality, usable applications and physical databases from the repository-based metadata.

Designer's cooperative, multi-user, repository-based architecture delivers a dramatic increase in productivity for developers by offering a collaborative work environment. Like other components in Oracle9iDS, Designer offers fast, integrated access to the version control, dependency management, and impact analysis tools in Oracle9i Software Configuration Manager.

With Designer you can: