Does anyone have anything good to say about JDeveloper's use of CVS?
I've previously used WSAD but due to constraints (OracleAS webapp) I
want to use JDev but I'm trying to see how a team of developers would
really work as a team with CVS code control.

I've just checked in an edit on a file on one of the team PCs but I
can't see any quick and convenient way of detecting the change on
another PC. Worse still - when I edited the same file on another PC and
then tried to commit the change - it just throws an error message
stating "failed to commit to the CVS repository" / "cvs server:
Up-to-date check failed for ... cvs [server aborted]: correct above
errors first!"
This then forces me down the line of going back to find the jdev 'cvs
update' menu option to merge the changes together - and then re-edit
the CVS entries to re-fix the code. ... And then the update doesn't let
me edit the differences - it's all or nothing with jdev!

This is all a little high-maintenance; WSAD does it so much better
(with comparison edits and allowing you to selectively copy parts of
the file changes instead of the whole thing.

Does this sound familiar or have I got this wrong?

Any thoughts on a better way of doing things if I just can't change
IDE.

Many thanks