sort of reiterating a question
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I am curious about the direction of JDeveloper in regard to plugins (extensions, addins).
One of the noteworthy negatives of moving to JDeveloper (9+) is the lack of available plugins which are available for other IDEs - NetBeans (and Forte/SunOne), Eclipse (WSAD), JBuilder. Even with the older JDeveloper you had the benefit of the JBuilder plugins.
Are there any plans to accelerate things for JDeveloper? For example, some bridge or adapter for NetBeans plugins or something.
Somethings like AspectJ seem so significant to me that Oracle should do whatever it took to get that available for JDeveloper. At minimum have someone spend a day with the PARC folks to get them past
"Oracle JDeveloper has an Extension SDK unfamiliar to us. "
http://aspectj.org/doc/dist/faq.html#q:idesupportplans
Another thought, it might prove worthwhile for several different reasons for Oracle to offer paypal bounties for some of tools out there. While it might be pretty expensive for Oracle to use it's own resources to port a tool, a relatively small bounty ($500?, $1000?) might be significant enough to get a worthwhile OSS tool ported, increasing the value of JDeveloper and earning Oracle some "points" (unless you choose to do it anonymously to avoid everyone lining up begging). You might only need to do that for a handful or so of tools to help build momemtum and broaden support.