Oracle Designer


Oracle Designer was Oracle's CASE tool for designing an information system and generating it. After generating the information system one is able to edit the generated code with Oracle Developer Suite.
As of April 2018 this product has reached its end of life and is now in sustaining support only. Alternative modeling and design tools are Oracle JDeveloper and Oracle SQL Developer Data Modeler.

History

The product's original name was Oracle CASE and it was developed in England.
The user interface was developed using Oracle Forms and Oracle Reports. This was a character mode user interface that was typically used in terminal sessions or MS-Dos.
It also included a GUI diagram editor that ran on X-Windows only.
A later version was redeveloped in Forms 4.0 and then redeveloped again as a Windows only program

Components

;Business Process Modelling
;Systems Analysis Modelling
;Design Wizards
;Systems Design
;Client/Server Generators
;Utilities
Oracle CASE 1
Oracle CASE 2
Oracle CASE 3
Oracle CASE 4
Oracle CASE 5 - developed using SQL*Forms 3 character mode screens
Oracle CASE 5.1 was a major redevelopment where the screens were redeveloped using the Oracle Forms 4.0 which provided a GUI interface
The version numbers get confusing at this point because the numbers go backwards.
The software was renamed and the next version released was Oracle Designer/2000 6.0.
The next minor release changed the numbering system to be in line with Oracle Developer, so it was named Designer 1.1
Designer 1
Designer 2
Designer 3 - TO DO: not sure if this existed
After this point the version numbers were changed to be in line with Oracle Developer
Designer 6
Designer 6i - the pre-release version number was 6.5. The production release was changed to 6i to keep in sync with the Oracle Developer version name
Designer 9i
Designer 10gR2 – this was the last release of Designer

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