DevOps, CI/CD and Automation

I finally got my Oracle Designer extension to SQL Developer to a point where I felt I could release it. This extends the Connections navigator so that if you have an Oracle Designer Repository, you can browse it from SQL Developer, much as you can with the Repository Object Browser (ROB). In fact, I used icons that I borrowed from ROB in my extension.
This is also a pretty good example of what you can do with XML extensions in SQL Developer. Although this is a Java extension written with JDeveloper, 95% of it is just XML. See more on this subject in my paper for ODTUG Kaleidoscope 2009, "[Extending SQL Developer|http://www.smdi.com/employee/JohnF/articles/Extending%20SQL%20Developer.zip]".

If you would like to download the extension or the JDeveloper Project containing the source code, go to [my shared source code page|http://www.smdi.com/employee/JohnF/sourcecode.html]. I'm very interested in feedback, especially if you have version control turned on in your Designer Repository. I have an ACTION in the workarea navigator so that you can right click and set one of your workareas to be the current workarea, but since my repository isn't versioned, I have no idea if it works.

Eventually, I'd like to make this a shared project so that people can help me improve this. The new Oracle sample code repository looks like a good place to do this - check out [Oracle Sample Code|https://www.samplecode.oracle.com/]. In the meantime, please feel free to send me your comments, bug reports, and improvements.