SQL Developer on macOS 11 Big Sur?

Jayson

Has anyone had any success getting SQL Developer to launch on Big Sur? The official release, as I write this, is tomorrow, Thursday, November 12, 2020.

So far during the betas SQL Developer, attempting to launch it causes the icon to bounce a couple of times in the Dock, and then nothing else ever happens.

Not sure where to go from here to investigate it. Looking at Console didn't seem to show anything understandable (to me, at least, I'm afraid).

User_EFHGX

Exactly the same here, any news on a fix?

Philipp Salvisberg

I'm still on Catalina. However, I would try to start SQL Developer from the terminal window. I don't expect it to work but you should at least get an error message. And that might help.

So, start a terminal window (e.g. by typing "terminal" in the spotlight) and then

cd /Applications/SQLDeveloper.app/Contents/resources/sqldeveloper
zsh sqldeveloper.sh

This way I can start SQL Developer on my machine.

User_EFHGX

Awesome! That works - thanks so much

thatJeffSmith-Oracle

Biggest issue would normally be that SQLDev can't find the java home, or IS finding a home that's not compatible

I talk about how to fix that here

https://www.thatjeffsmith.com/archive/2014/12/java-mac-sqldev/

User_QDOFC

https://community.oracle.com/tech/developers/discussion/comment/16775028#Comment_16775028

Correct, but how do that ?

Richard_Allen

Any idea when we will have an instant client that runs on Big Sur and which will support Apple Silicon as well as x86?

thatJeffSmith-Oracle

find your java path, then update the product.conf file to point to it

Oracle Java JDK 8 or 11 are supported (i'm using 14, so that should work too...)

https://www.thatjeffsmith.com/archive/2014/12/java-8-on-a-mac-with-sql-developer-4-1/

User_VGARV

I put the "SQL Developer" app into the Documents folder (to avoid confusion) and saved an Automator->Application->Run Shell Script in the Applications folder:

Put this into the Automator script window: (slightly modified from above to remove the cog from the taskbar and pointing to my location of the Sql Developer App.)

cd /Users/username/Documents/SQLDeveloper.app/Contents/resources/sqldeveloper

zsh sqldeveloper.sh &>/dev/null &

Jayson

Thanks, everyone. In my case, it turns out I had three different Javas installed (8, 11, and 15), and I uninstalled them all and reinstalled 11, and SQL Developer starts up fine and is generally happy as a clam now.

User_VGARV

I tried that last night and couldn’t get Big Sur to work unless I did it thru Terminal...