Boost up Oracle JDeveloper Performance

Have you ever faced performance issues while working in Oracle JDeveloper like slowness, memory errors, etc? If yes then following steps can improve and boost up your Oracle JDeveloper performance

1. Clearing Oracle JDeveloper temp and cache directory with hotkeys

Oracle JDeveloper keeps on creating temp, cache and history files. So as a best practice to boost up your JDeveloper performance keep deleting the files frequently. Every time you can't go these directories to manually delete the files, so you can assign hotkeys to perform this delete operation. Click here to see how?

2. Changing preference to open pages in Source View instead of Design View in Oracle JDeveloper

Whenever we open files like JSP Page Fragments, JSP Pages, HTML code, etc. they always open in Design view instead of source code which makes large files or files with many components to load slower.

So, do we have any way which enables Jdeveloper to open files directly in Source Code view instead of opening the Design editor?
Yes, we can change this default setting. Click here to see how?

3. Changing look and feel of Oracle JDeveloper to windows 

You can also change the look and feel of Oracle JDeveloper to windows instead of Oracle theme.  Click here to see how?

4. Disable features in Oracle JDeveloper to improve performance

Oracle JDeveloper has many features and updates which you may not be used for the current project. So, you can disable those extensions.  Click here to see how?

5. Disable auto build on save in Oracle JDeveloper to improve performance

By default whenever you save any file, Oracle JDeveloper will build your code which can reduce the performance if you frequently click Save. So, disable auto build on save  Click here to see how?

6. Use fast swap option in Oracle JDeveloper to speed up development

You can use Fast Swap feature in Oracle Jdeveloper to speed up the development.  Click here to see how?

7. Change the priority of Oracle JDeveloper to improve performance

You can change the priority of Oracle JDeveloper to improve performance.  Click here to see how?

7. Change configuration files of Oracle JDeveloper to fix memory issues

You can change configuration files of Oracle JDeveloper to fix memory issues.  Click here to see how?