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To build the package you need to manually download the no-jre archive from Oracle's site[1] and place it in the same directory with the PKGBUILD[2] and then run makepkg.

[1] https://www.oracle.com/tools/downloads/sqldev-downloads.html, you need "Other platforms"

[2] https://aur.archlinux.org/cgit/aur.git/tree/PKGBUILD?h=oracle-sqldeveloper

The package is out of date, requires the following updates to the version and to the checksums to build:

diff --git a/PKGBUILD b/PKGBUILD
index 022d3fe..d084109 100644
--- a/PKGBUILD
+++ b/PKGBUILD
@@ -9,7 +9,7 @@
 # Contributor: David Fuhr <david.fuhr@web.de>

 pkgname=oracle-sqldeveloper
-pkgver=20.4.0.379.2205
+pkgver=20.4.1.407.0006
 pkgrel=1
 pkgdesc="A graphical tool for database development"
 arch=("any")
@@ -30,21 +30,21 @@ source=(
   "java_home.patch"
 )
 md5sums=(
-  "97129c75de00a35fdd4a110b4485a124"
+  "041709f01de2c6d176f37132089b61b8"
   "1d17d18e10ab85dead0770e8840273b3"
   "26c1dc933a9ab58a4245f4f351717645"
   "71a4092467209c160d0f34abbc08e049"
   "f321debd62e5da652ba1eba22937f2b2"
 )
 sha1sums=(
-  "a1b45b0a2b20f43f93e250a302c7069ae0667cb9"
+  "df90320a3a6e15df90fafb9d0c603317f3a68b84"
   "056bef8e3caa25e62c1395346c34f8a83c532aa8"
   "f33177179a2c6ea8b3fa8db5465dc36cf4317b1b"
   "524dfbd8baf17e348d529a831abf639029c56c7b"
   "593f81ab897ea7e15985b73c1ddff1a3717d02a4"
 )
 sha256sums=(
-  "3315389628ba6ef33bd0d1ca237985192ce8fb7893256c6a9c27371f087da3c0"
+  "941135b2de75ffd27ef277b7e4538de4d8bdc4050dd2a87af05ce31b2bb7d95f"
   "bd028a137c83ab3698a562e9a7ec4006fb396178ab4a6ebdbaa60c75b5c0974c"
   "43b16049fbf85740767c45f0387a7c5e6118b8876509a8f0bb621ed0b5576a25"
   "7b3a6fd8a1ade4427382ee36dc28432655902a0a68547b29c5ce089bd85fe3de"

i had issues starting this from my xorg window manager menu (i don't run gnome, so the gnome -fix did not help), it worked without any issues launching the program from an xterm, but exporting JAVA_HOME in the start script solved my issues.

i'm new to arch, so i don't know "Arch way" of doing it, but i added

 export DEFAULT_JAVA=$(archlinux-java get)
 export JAVA_HOME=$(echo /usr/lib/jvm/$DEFAULT_JAVA)

in the start script under /usr/bin/ and that worked for me at least, so now i can start sql-developer from the menu of my window manager

Does anyone else has a problem with font antialiasing in this program? All the fonts that it uses are not antialiased which makes it look hideous for me.

To build the package you need to manually download the no-jre archive from Oracle's site[1] and place it in the same directory with the PKGBUILD[2] and then run makepkg.

[1] https://www.oracle.com/tools/downloads/sqldev-downloads.html, you need "Other platforms"

[2] https://aur.archlinux.org/cgit/aur.git/tree/PKGBUILD?h=oracle-sqldeveloper

The desktop icon is not hicolor and is ugly, could have made an effort it integrates very badly in hicolor icons setup

Please drop the use of DLAGENTS and PKGEXT in the PKGBUILD. This is not how you are supposed to use them. Your use of PKGEXT is particularly horrible.

Also had this error: java.lang.module.FindException: Module javafx.web not found

But I had jre8, jre10, jre11 and jre13 installed. I removed jre8, jre10, jre13 but didn't remove jre11. I made sure I had jre11-openjdk reinstalled. And then it worked perfectly.

To keep compatibility with JDK8 I had to move OpenJFX dependencies to optional. I've included a message saying that you need to install a correct version of OpenJFX depending on JDK version you will be using, hopefully that's enough.

The new openjdk is in the repos, which isn't supported by sqldeveloper. Please change the java-openjfx dependency to java11-openjfx, with that it will keep working.

@ecomaikgolf Do you have JavaFX (version 8 is required I think) installed?