ORACLE UNVEILS NEW JAVA/XML TOOL FOR J2EE APPS AND WEB SERVICES.

Oracle Corp. (Nasdaq: ORCL) has announced early access to Oracle9i JDeveloper through an Early Adopter Program (EAP) from Oracle Technology Network (OTN) -- the industry's first Developer Services Provider. More than 1.7 million members of OTN can immediately begin to develop Java2 Enterprise Edition (J2EE) and eXtensible Markup Language (XML) based applications and Web services with Oracle9i JDeveloper -- the first component of Oracle's new generation of application development tools that takes advantage of Oracle9iApplication Server and Oracle9i Database.

Written entirely in Java for seamless cross-platform development, the new Oracle9i JDeveloper delivers the industry's first complete and integrated J2EE and XML team development environment for the rapid delivery of Web services and transactional applications accessible through Web, wireless and voice interfaces. Oracle9i JDeveloper changes the face of J2EE application development by combining traditional Java programming techniques with the latest modeling approaches in a single, integrated development environment for complete development lifecycle management.

"As e-business applications become more and more complex with fast-moving requirements and as J2EE has now proven its stability to make applications totally interoperable, Java developers have to rely on modeling to remain productive and to meet end users expectations," said Mark Driver, research director at Gartner. "Standalone, traditional Java tools no longer dominate the marketplace. What developers need is a modeling environment tightly integrated with their Java development environment."