Posts under ‘Software Engineering’

Intellectual Property (IPR) Management and Monitoring Tools

It seems that every day projects have more and more dependencies on libraries (internal or external) and, of course, many of these depend on other libraries, resulting in a large dependency tree for any given project. How do you know if any of those libraries contain some code which is licensed in a way that [...]

Eating our own Dog Food! - The Server Labs moves its Lab to the Cloud!

After all these years dealing with servers, switches, routers and virtualisation technologies we think it´s time to move our lab into the next phase, the Cloud, specifically the Amazon EC2 Cloud.
We are actively working in the Cloud now for different projects, as you´ve seen in previous blog posts. We believe and feel this step is [...]

Developing applications with SCA and a JBI-Based supporting infrastructure

We have been working with SOA technologies and solutions in the commercial and open-source arena for some years now and I would like to start a new series with this post covering the developments of two mayor standardisation efforts in this area, SCA (Service Component Architecture) and JBI (Java Business Integration).
While for some time [...]

The Server Labs open sources their Maven utPLSQL plugin

Following on from my post the other day, I’m very happy to announce that we have released the source code for our Maven utPLSQL plugin under an Apache 2.0 license.
The code (and downloads for the latest version of the plugin) is published on the Google Code website and is available from the following URL:

http://code.google.com/p/maven-utplsql-plugin/
We [...]

Continuous Integration with Oracle PL/SQL, utPLSQL and Hudson

PL/SQL is not exactly the coolest technology around these days but many businesses rely on it for their day-to-day operation. The fact that it is relatively old and does not mean that you cannot apply Extreme Programming(XP) practices to PL/SQL development. A few years ago, Steven Feuerstein developed utPLSQL, a unit testing framework for PL/SQL, [...]