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Node (npm) package licensing

05 Tuesday Jul 2022

Posted by mp3monster in development, General, node.js, Technology

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code, developer, development, Licensing, node.js, package, Technology

When building Node solutions, even if you’re not going to publish the code to a public repository you’re likely to be using package.json to declare the dependencies for your app. Doing this makes it easier to build and deploy a utility. But if you’re conversant with several languages there is a tendency to just adapt your existing skills to work with others. The downside of this is small tooling nuances can catch you off guard and consume time while figuring them out. The workings of packages with NPM (as shown below) is one possible case.

{
  "name": "graph-svr",
  "version": "1.0.0",
  "description": "packages needed for this service",
  "main": "index.js",
  "type": "module",
  "scripts": {
    "start": "node index.js"
  },
  "dependencies": {
    "@graphql-tools/graphql-file-loader": "^7.3.11",
    "@graphql-tools/load-files": "^6.5.4",
    "@graphql-tools/schema": "^8.3.10",
    "@graphql-yoga/node": "^2.4.1",
    "apollo-datasource-rest": "^3.5.2",
    "apollo-server": "^3.6.7",
    "graphql": "^16.4.0",
    "graphql-tools": "^8.2.8"
  },
  "author": "Phil Wilkins",
  "license": "MIT"
}

If you create the package.json using npm init to create the initial version of the file, it is fairly common to set values to default. In the case of the license, this is an ISC license. This is easily forgotten. The problem here is twofold:

  • Does the license set reflect the constraints of the dependencies and their licenses
  • Does the default license reflect the position you want?

Looking at the latter point first, This is important as organizations have matured (and tooling greatly improved) when it comes to understanding how open source licensing can impact. This is particularly important for any organizations leveraging open source as part of their revenue generating activities either ‘as a service’ but also selling software solutions. If you put the wrong license here the license checking tools often protecting code repositories may reject your code, even in internal only use cases (yes this tripped me up).

To help overcome this issue you can install a tool that will analyze the dependencies and optionally their dependencies and report back on your license exposure. This tool is called license-report. Once installed (npm install -g license-report) we just need to point the tool to the package.json file. e.g. license-report package.json. We can make the results a lot more consumable by outputting the content in a number of formats. For example a simple text value:

From this, you could set your license declaration in package.json or validate that your preferred license won’t conflict,

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New Challenge – New Job

21 Monday Mar 2022

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architecture, blog, book, Capgemini, developer, Oracle

Those I interact with more regularly will know I have this last week started a new job. You could say I’ve followed a common path for Ace Directors that don’t have instrumental roles within a company and joined Oracle. But some things won’t change; my new role as Cloud Developer Evangelist means I will still be producing blog content. My writing will appear on Oracle’s websites through the Blog, Community, Developer, and Architecture parts of the site, plus potential contributing to other high profile sites. But We’ll continue to add posts here, including referencing contributions in other locations.

I will continue submitting papers/presentations to conferences and presenting. Hopefully, we’ll start to get out and see people whilst presenting as well.

This does mean a change to my Ace Director status, as I will become an Alumni of the community, and we’ll be updating logos etc. But I have developed many friendships and contacts within the ace community. Not to mention, I believe and value what the Ace Community does, so while I may not be officially part of the community anymore, I will endeavour to support my friends and the wider community.

Leaving Capgemini has been uncomfortable, as I have left behind many great people that I’ve enjoyed working with (although some of those have also preceded me into Oracle). But to do more of what I have learnt over the years as the most rewarding (talking and writing about applying technology to solve problems, sharing insights and knowledge), particularly as part of the Ace community, meant a need for a new challenge.

To those who have contributed and influenced my journey – as ever my thanks.

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Oracle Developer Meetups – Gone Virtual

21 Monday Dec 2020

Posted by mp3monster in Dev Meetup, General, Technology

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2021, @GeertjanW, @jurgenkress, Angelo Santagata, Chris Petyier, Christian McCabe, developer, Filip Huysmans, Grant Ronald, Lucas Jellema, Martien van den Akker, meetup, Niall Commiskey, Oracle, Rolando Carrasco, virtual

I’ve not posted about the developer meetups for a little while, perhaps because with everything being virtual these days things blur together too much. But its time to put that right (at least a little). So over the last couple of month’s we’ve been fortunate enough to have a couple of Oracle’s guru’s from the A-Team covering some pretty interesting topics.

November saw Chris Peytier exploring the process management side of Integration Cloud and how process management and more traditional integration can come together to offer a very effective solution with example use cases such as the idea of when conditions are not valid for an integration to be executed Chris’ slides are here.

Then this week we had Angelo Santagata complete with Santa hat talking about Serverless as a means to enable SaaS extensions and integrations through the use of Oracle Functions (the cloud-deployed version of Project Fn). You can get the presentation here.

If the slides aren’t enough then you can catch the presentations as videos, Angelo’s is here and I’m sure we’ll see Chris’ made available as well.

2021

I’m excited to say that we have a coyuple of presentations lined up for 2021 already so keep an eye on the London Oracle Developer Meetup. So watch out for the updates in the new year.

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Developer Meetup – JavaScript Frameworks and Web Components

17 Monday Feb 2020

Posted by mp3monster in Dev Meetup, development, General, Oracle, Technology

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@GeertjanW, code, developer, enterprise, framework, javascript, JET, meetup, toolket

Last night was the latest in #OracleDeveloperMeetups in London. The evening’s focus was on JavaScript Frameworks, Toolkits and Web Components.  Whilst the event is sponsored by Oracle the focus is very much on the challenges of JavaScript Frameworks.

Thanks to the Oracle and Cap Gemini teams including @GeertjanW and @PhilConsultant for an excellent session in London on Oracle Jet @OracleJET this evening. Very insightful. #oracledevelopermeetup

— David Archbold (@archbold_david) February 17, 2020

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API Platform – Developer Portal Delegated Authentication

18 Monday Nov 2019

Posted by mp3monster in API Platform CS, Oracle, Technology

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API, APIPlatformCS, Cloud Service, configuration, developer, federated, IDCS, login, OAuth, Oracle, portal

The API Platform when you configure IDCS to provide the option to authenticate users against a corporate Identity Provider such as Active Directory will automatically update the Management Portal Login screen accordingly. However today it doesn’t automatically update the Developer Portal login page.  Whilst perhaps an oversight, it is very easy to fix manually when you know how. As result you can have a login that looks like:

The rest of this blog will show what’s needed to fix the problem.

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London Oracle Developer Meetup – OIC Patterns and more

09 Tuesday Jul 2019

Posted by mp3monster in Dev Meetup, drone, General, Oracle, Technology

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developer, drone, meetup, OIC, Oracle

This Meetup was put together quickly as it presented an opportunity to align with other events happening in the Oracle offices. Despite the relatively short notice we a turn out that really made great use of our speaker – Sid Joshi who walked through the Enterprise Level patterns supported by Oracle’s Integration Cloud (OIC) including a demo showing how PaaS4SaaS worked using Service Cloud and OIC making use of VBCS and integration (formerly ICS) parts of the API Platform.

As with all the meet-ups we allow the discussions to flow freely. So, the conversation probed different aspects of OIC. So with the follow up on Several Capgemini use cases of OIC that have won the team awards.

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You can see these use cases here. Sid’s presentation is available AppIntegrationPatterns_MeetUp. Additional resources can also be obtained from https://oracle-integration.cloud

As the conversation has focused on OIC and the use cases rather than our ongoing Drones with APIs stories, I have had an interesting follow on discussion about the application of drones.  The drone story has many threads.  The initial driver for the work on the drone has been about bringing something interesting and distinctive to the meetup.  The drone is very tangible, and the source of amusement which makes the meetups a lot more fun.

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Popping Up on the Net and more

28 Friday Jun 2019

Posted by mp3monster in APIs & microservices, Books, Dev Meetup, development, General, Oracle, Packt, Technology

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API, blog, books, developer, interview, meetup, Oracle

It’s been a quiet month for this blog, but I’ve been pretty busy with a raft of other activities…

  • a recent article on our sister site – oracle-integration.cloud on  RPA.
  • I also appear in an interview with K21 Academy here.
  • 4186btedcpl._sx403_bo1204203200_Reviewing a new book on Enterprise API Management for Packt which we would very highly recommend if you want to understand the more Enterprise perspectives of adopting APIs, particularly if you’re considering APIs as a potential new revenue stream.
  • UK Oracle User Group committees for TechFest (having been reviewing the paper submissions it looks like it’s going to be an excellent conference in December) and Southern Summit (next week).
  • Just launched a number of sessions for the Oracle London Developer Meetup, with another to be announced soon (Blockchain) and potentially two more before the end of the year (we’re working on the speakers now).

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Oracle Developer Meetup – London Feb 19

05 Tuesday Feb 2019

Posted by mp3monster in Dev Meetup, development, General, Helidon, Oracle, Technology

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developer, GitHub, Helidon, meetup, micro profile, Microservices, open tracing, Oracle, signatures

Last night was the first Oracle Developer Meetup in London for 2019.  We were very fortunate to have Tomas Langer fly over to talk about the new micro container/framework being developed as an open-source solution by Oracle.

 

Oracle Developer Meet-up - Tomas Langer presenting on Helidon

Tomas, opened by explaining the evolution of the micro-profile being championed by the Eclipse Foundation who are now the guardians of J2EE also known as Jakarta and how the J2EE and Micro-Profile standards compare (in simplistic terms – micro-profile is J2EE stripped back to be simple and support what is typically needed in a micro-service world).

The presentation then went onto compare Helidon SE and Helidon MP (micro-profile).  What was really pleasing is that with a couple of exceptions everything that Helidon MP can do, can be done in the SE edition, the difference being that for SE you have to implement more code, rather than the auto-magic of annotations, but in return you have a Reactive Java platform with a development paradigm which relates to JavaScript Express.

In addition to talking about what can be done, Tomas described the kinds of features being developed, this includes:

  • Bringing micro-profile support up to the very latest specification,
  • More reactive persistence technologies support,

With the scene set, Tomas then worked through a series of live code scenarios starting with a clean slate and building Hello World in both the SE & MP models illustrating the differences in approach.  This was then built upon to add the following capabilities:

  • Tracing (using Zipkin leveraging the Open Tracing Standard)
  • Dynamic configuration
  • Security (including Signatures)
  • Fault Handling (just MP)

You can get the complete example which uses Helidon in both configurations from Tomas GitHub.

In addition to Helidon itself on GitHub, there are resources provided include rich documentation and examples of each key feature.  Plus a Slack community, that if you contact any of the Helidon team will get you invited allowing you to discuss with the development team how to do things along with other developers using Helidon.

Tomas can be contracted via @Langer_Tomas.  Helidon project also has its own Twitter account – Helidon Project

Helidon itself can be found at:

  • Helidon website
  • GitHub
  • Helidon documentation

I have previously blogged on Helidon at Exploring Helidon – Part 1

 

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Helidon Live

26 Saturday Jan 2019

Posted by mp3monster in General, Helidon, Oracle, Technology

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developer, Helidon, London, meetup, micro contaIner, Oracle

The London Oracle Developer Meetup (here) are excited to say that on that we’ll have 2 of the lead engineers with us from the Helidon.io project with us to introduce and demo the new open-source micro container platform. Bring your laptop and code along if you like.

Hope to see you there.

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Oracle Developer Podcast – Developer Evolution

19 Sunday Aug 2018

Posted by mp3monster in development, General, Oracle, Technology

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podcast-356-dev-evolutionLast month I was fortunate enough to have been invited to participate in another Oracle Developer Podcast.  Rather than focusing on specific technologies, this focused on more how the thew job market is changing for IT and what might be driving change, and how things may change in the future. Check it out here.

As ever thanks to Bob Rhubart of the invitation, and putting together these excellent recordings.

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