Oracle Team Productivity Center
July 2nd, 2009 | Published in oracle, software development | 3 Comments
Yesterday Oracle released Oracle Fusion Middleware 11g, a SOA stack including WebLogic, BPEL, Rules, Metadata support, Oracle ADF, and improved declarative programming support in the new release of JDeveloper. If you google it, you’ll find plenty of blogs describing all the details of this new release.
One thing that surprised me is that Oracle now also has Application Lifecycle Management tooling including a server part and JDeveloper support. Oracle’s ALM tool is called Oracle Team Productivity Center. What sets it apart from alternatives like Eclipse Jazz/Rational Team Concert and Microsoft’s team system is Oracle’s support for different backend stores. You can use Jira for bugs/todo’s or you can use Rally Software ALM tooling, designed for Agile projects.
I think it’s a good thing that Oracle have finally released ALM tooling. In the past we’ve build our own ALM servers, mainly from opensource components like subversion, trac, and continuum. The fact that Oracle has released an ALM tool stresses the importance of good ALM facilities. Often, no budget at all was available on projects, so we mostly used free opensource solutions that we had to quickly throw together, as there was also limited time to install it.
July 2nd, 2009 at 2:12 pm (#)
To me Oracle’s ALM looks a lot like what Eclipse Mylyn brings to the table. Extensions like this help to provide a really complete, integrated and agile development environment.
July 6th, 2009 at 6:59 pm (#)
When looking for a ALM tool, how does Oracle TPC compare against CodeBeamer by Intland software?
July 7th, 2009 at 6:15 am (#)
I haven’t used both, so i can’t really say. But from a quick look at the website, it seems to me that Oracle TPC is a way of integrating external ticket tools into jdeveloper.
CodeBeamer could be one of these tools, if a Oracle TPC based plugin is made available. Currently CodeBeamer doesn’t have a JDeveloper plugin, so you cant use it from within JDeveloper.