The future of version control in JDeveloper
Brian Duff is writing about Oracle SCM and the Future. He basically says that support for Oracle SCM is not very important for Oracle. They’ll support it, but don’t expect them to put a lot of effort into improving it. Currectly CVS support gets the most attention.
Oracle SCM uses the oracle Designer Repository to store files and version information. OracleDesigner, it’s Repository (and thus Oracle SCM) are no longer developer further. Oracle still supports them. but don’t expect a lot of improvements.
Instead Oracle is improving support for pvcs and subversion. I’ve used pvcs in the past, and i hope i don’t have to use it anymore in the future. CVS is much nicer. Subversion is a bit nicer than CVS, so i’m glad Oracle will also support it. But the real improvement in version control systems is brought by tools like arch and bitkeeper. Hopefully Oracle will also start to support these tools.