In most of my environments I reach in short time the requirement to have some kind of automation server. How cool would it be, to start this server as part of my local Virtual Development Server? And what if the result will be usable for a lot of other use cases too?
For extensive testing of Database Migration I need an environment with Liquibase and an Oracle Database. So I have built this Virtual Development Environment which can be started, stopped, removed and rebuilt in seconds.
In my series about Modern Infrastructure for your Virtual Development Server I will now start my Server with Vagrant in VirtualBox on Windows. Again I will use Jenkins as example for this. See how this works.
In my blog Use adr-tools for AsciiDoc I have described, how to change the tool to write my Architecture Decision Records in AsciiDoc. But there are a lot of drawbacks with this approach, e.g. some of the features like linking and superceding decisions does not work. ADR Tool is based on shell scripts, so you have to provide and know a *nix emulation on windows. In the meantime I found Java base ADR-J Tool and will show you here if this works better for my purposes.
As I create my Virtual Development Servers I asked myself how can I easily test, that it is working? As I put now my servers into containers via docker-compose I searched for a test framework, which supports this out of the box. I heard a lot about TestContainers in the past and again at Javaland 2022 conference last week, so I want to test now, if this will help me.
In my series about Modern Infrastructure for your Virtual Development Server I will now start with the easiest case for me. I will run a Server on a Docker Desktop on Windows. As I need CI for all of my projects I will use Jenkins as example for this. See how this works.
After my 2016 series about my Virtual Development Server I have learned a lot. It’s time for a major overhaul with new technologies. It should be a lot more flexible and usable for development and course environments. See how I will restart!
I looked for a tool to create Architecture Decision Records in AsciiDoc and does not find any. So first I thought, I would have to (re)implement one. But look, how easy it really was.
I have presented last week on DOAG 2021. For all non DOAG members - you can find the german presentation on Slideshare too:
The current target architecture of IKB’s credit and loan management is based on Oracle ADF and SOA and of course the database. But how can you protect in this time your Oracle Forms & Reports longtime investments, can you support their Development Lifecycle by Automation?
For our migration to Oracle ADF we have to identify, which Forms and Reports modules are still really called. For Forms we already have implemented a call statistic. In this blog post I show you how you can automatically implement the same into over 200 reports.