For the last few days, I've been working on the new Domain Specific Language (DSL) tools in Microsoft Visual Studio 2005. To say the least, it looks quite good and promising to invest some time exploring it! However, as I was trying to understand how a DSL differed from a UML profile, I ran into this
interesting blog post from Grady Booch that explains why the term Software Factories that Microsoft choose is not apt. The blog post also compares UML profiles to DSL's and is an interesting read.
The production version of JDeveloper has been released. You can download it from the Oracle site. Post installing this release, all my hang-up issues went away.
One really nice thing that I like about JDeveloper is that you can just delete the directory where it was installed and then copy over a new version. No need to fire-up un-installation utilities, registry cleanups etc. Wish that Visual Studio 2005 was as simple as this! :-)