Smals-IDE - open source to the rescue
Abstract
Smals is a medium sized company. We have more than 250 Java/JEE programmers together with as much analysts working on +100 projects. Most of these projects are in the same domain (health care, social security) A few years ago we were confronted with the harsh truth that, although each team was efficient in solving his problem, the coming-together of all the solutions on our infrastructure and vis-à-vis the clients was far from ideal. Quality Assurance was a problem. In an attempt to solve some of the problems an initiative was started a few years ago to unify the Smals developers community. This resulted in the Smals-IDE which consists of an IDE, a continuous build and test environment and a release system, all based on open source tools with some customizations. We hope this presentation will demonstrate that some organizing coupled with open source tooling can help a business to become more responsive to the market and improve quality of service.
Speaker
Frederic Marius is Java Architect at Smals and he has been working with Java for more than 10 years.
In the last few years he has been a member of the Java Development Standardization team of the company, and it's in that context that an integrated development environment has been set up using open source tools. Frederic also likes to give Java related trainings to colleagues at Smals.
