Black Duck Software has revamped its software cipher engine so that it indexes more rapidly and filters the results, the company proclaimed Wednesday. Black Duck Code Sight 2.0, out now, is also the first edition of the software to operate on Linux servers, in extra to being capable to operate on Microsoft Windows servers.


Utilizing cipher Sight is like inquisitory on a actual search engine, but the message and indexing is differentiated to cipher. We parse and index the raw source in cipher-particular ways to identify things like method definitions and classes, said Jim Berets, Black Duck vice president of product management.


Code Sight indexes all the cipher that is embedded in edition control systems or that is hence present on an organization's network. It gives an port for developers to search for chunks of cipher that they could consult or reuse in their own projects. The company is marketing the software to organizations with cipher reuse initiatives put in place to preserve money and time.


Code Sight can index cipher within many unlike kinds of edition control systems, adding Git, CVS (Concurrent edition System), Mercurial, Subversion, AccuRev, IBM's ClearCase and Microsoft's Team Foundation Server. It can be got at via the Eclipse or the Microsoft Visual Studio integrated programmer environments, or with a browser.


This edition of the software can index code bases four to 6 times as rapidly as the fomer edition did, according to the company. The improvement arrive about due to a number of cause, Berets explained. When the company's developers changed the software from Microsoft Windows to Linux, they optimized the cipher in a number of places in a way that should make the program operate more efficiently. They also migrated to the new edition of the underlying search software, Apache Lucene and Solr.


The software's ability to handle user roles has also been increased. The software can now port with user folder that can be allows though the LDAP (Lightweight Directory Access Protocol). Users can be attributed roles, and administrators can then set the permit stage to the roles. One member of a group could be indicated as the indexer, for example, and would have greater access to cipher from other parts of an organization.


The latest edition arrives in three editions. A Free Personal Edition can index up to 500,000 lines of cipher. The Free Team Edition can index up to 5 million lines of cipher. The Enterprise versions, which has no limit on the lines of cipher it can index,begins at US$9,500. The software is also a tools of Black Duck Suite of development management tools.