Oracle has set its post-BEA developer tools road map and the focus will be around the Oracle JDeveloper integrated development environment.

Oracle President Charles Phillips and Thomas Kurian, Oracle Fusion Middleware senior vice president, in a Webcast on July 1 outlined the company's plans for integrating the BEA Systems technology Oracle bought for $8.5 billion into the Oracle fold.

Essentially, what Oracle showed is that the company is good at acquiring and integrating software into its portfolio of offerings, having done it so frequently over the past few years. It was no surprise that Oracle decided to focus on the more mature BEA WebLogic Application Server as the core of its Fusion Middleware stack, just like it was no surprise that Oracle would continue to focus on its JDeveloper IDE as the center of its tool strategy.

"From the tooling side, we've had a fairly clear message for a number of years now and that's going to continue: to have a single development platform that supports the middleware from soup to nuts, and that's the JDeveloper IDE," said Duncan Mills, senior director of product management for Oracle Fusion Middleware.

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