Starting to use SubVersioN in JDeveloper

When your going to develop software in a team you will almost certainly need a source versioning system. Even if you develop the software all by yourself, it can be handy to use version control, in case you want to go back to an early release of your software. Luckily, version control can be considered as quite common, nowadays, and there are some good open source applications available, for free.
One of those is Subversion (SVN). Although I used to use CVS in the old days, I see more and more projects moving to SVN. One of the advantages of more people using it, is that there are becoming more and more plugins available, most likely also for your favourite Java IDE. And so there is one for JDeveloper, for which you can find the description here.
Just make sure that, before you start using the plugin, you install SVN server on a machine. How to do that on Windows and how to enter your first command line commands can be found here. By the way, this article also describes how to install TortoiseSVN: a very nice SVN client that integrates with your explorer in Windows.
For some good reading about SVN itself you can read this.