Using JDeveloper to develop BI Beans applications offers the following advantages:
JDeveloper provides a visual development environment that includes numerous wizards to assist in developing BI Beans objects. These wizards guide you in establishing a connection to an Oracle database and in the development of crosstabs, tables, graphs, and queries without requiring you to write code.
JDeveloper provides live access to data during design so that it is not necessary to compile and run an application to view the results of a query in a presentation. Live access to data during design is significant, because the format of a presentation is typically driven by the data itself.
JDeveloper is integrated with the BI Beans Catalog and lets you easily load objects from the Catalog and save objects to the Catalog.
JDeveloper provides easy access to the BI Beans JSP tag library. You select JSP tags visually, complete a wizard, and then JDeveloper inserts the JSP tags into your application code.
JDeveloper includes wizards that provide a quick introduction to the development of the following types of applications that use BI Beans objects:
HTML-client applications (including Java servlets and UIX servlets)
Java-client applications