Stephane Carrez

Having used Jenkins with more than 30 projects during 8 years, it was time to switch to another build manager. Written in Ada, Porion is a new build manager intended to replace Jenkins by providing more security, safety and performance.

The presentation describes the complexity of designing a build manager. It highlights some security issues that apply to a build manager and its implementation. It explains the overall architecture that was chosen and the reason of the choice. Finally it presents the Ada generation tools that have been used in this project.

Yes, another build manager to address security, safety and performance issues after having used Jenkins with more than 30 projects during 8 years.

The talk presents the Porion build manager with its command line interface but also with its responsive web UI. I will also explain some security and safety aspects provided by this new build manager.

Storing passwords and secret configuration is a challenge for an application. Ada Keystore is a library that stores arbitrary content by encrypting them in secure keystore (AES-256, HMAC-256).

The talk presents the project and shows how to use the Ada Keystore library to get or store secret information in a secure manner. The presentation explains how the Ada features such as types, protected types, tasks, pre/post conditions have helped during the development of this project.

Web application security is often underestimated, and using a secure framework can help reduce application vulnerabilities. Ada Web Application (AWA) is a web framework that leverages Ada's safety features to provide a secure environment on top of which safe applications are built. AWA is based on several Java-like technologies such as Java Beans, Java Servlet, Java Server Faces, other standards such as OAuth2, REST and OpenAPI, all implemented in Ada.

This presentation briefly describes the AWA architecture and how applications are built with it. The presentation highlights some of the Ada functionalities that contribute to the safety and make applications secure and reliable.

The presentation describes how Ada Database Objects helps in connecting to an SQLite/MySQL/PostgreSQL database from Ada. It explains how by mapping SQL tables in Ada records, it simplifies saving and updating database records and makes the application more safe and reliable. The presentation will briefly describe the Ada code generator (Dynamo) that is behind this.

The OpenAPI specification is an emerging specification to describe RESTful web services. The Swagger suite is a collection of tools to write such API descriptions and have the code generated in more than 29 languages, including Ada. The presentation will describe how to write a REST operation with OpenAPI, generate the Ada client with Swagger Codegen and use the generated code to interact with the server. We will also describe the generated Ada server code and how to implement the server side and run a complete REST server.