1. Using Oracle Developer Cloud Service (Traditional)
  2. Getting Started with Oracle Developer Cloud Service
  3. About Oracle Developer Cloud Service

About Oracle Developer Cloud Service

Oracle Developer Cloud Service is a cloud-based software development Platform as a Service (PaaS) and a hosted environment for your application development infrastructure. It provides an open source standards-based solution to develop, collaborate, and deploy applications within Oracle Cloud.

To set up a typical software development environment, other than setting up a database server and a web server, you would also need the following software:

  • Version controlled repository: for source code management

  • Build server: to run and manage regular software builds

  • Wiki server: for internal documentation

  • Bug server: to track bugs and new features

Setting up these software components requires configuration knowledge of each component to integrate them. Each component requires regular maintenance and upgrades. After each software upgrade, its integration with other software must be tested, and this usually takes a long time. You would also require compatible hardware to run these components.

Oracle Developer Cloud Service is a collection of similar software and services hosted on Oracle Cloud. Oracle Developer Cloud Service helps you to manage the application development life cycle effectively through integration with Git, Maven, issues, and wikis. Using Oracle Developer Cloud Service, you can commit your application source code to the Git repository on the Oracle Cloud, track assigned issues and defects online, share information using wiki pages, peer review the source code, and monitor project builds. After successful testing, you can deploy the project to Oracle Java Cloud Service - SaaS Extension, publicly available Oracle Java Cloud Service instances, Oracle Application Container Cloud Service instances, or to an on-premise production environment.

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The key features of Oracle Developer Cloud Service include:

  • Project creation, configuration, and user management

  • Version control and source code management with Git

  • Storage of application dependencies and libraries with Maven

  • Continuous build integration based on Hudson

  • Wiki for document collaboration

  • Issue tracking system to track tasks, defects, and features

  • Agile methodology to track sprints and update issues

  • Repository branch merge after code review

  • Deployment to Oracle Java Cloud Service - SaaS Extension, Oracle Java Cloud Service, and Oracle Application Container Cloud Service

As soon as your Oracle Developer Cloud Service account is activated, you can access all features of Oracle Developer Cloud Service immediately without setting up a local environment.

Oracle Developer Cloud Service is available as a web interface accessible from a web browser and from Integrated Development Environments (IDEs) such as Oracle Enterprise Pack for Eclipse (OEPE), Oracle JDeveloper, and NetBeans IDE.