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Kickass Hudson Plugins - Part 1 - Setenv and the Description Setter

One of the awesome things about Hudson is the sheer number of plugins available. In fact, if you use Hudson, make a habit of checking out the list of...

3 replies - 5670 views - 10/07/09 by John Ferguson Smart in Articles

OpenMake Meister and Mojo 7.3 Released

OpenMake Software, provider of build automation, build management, and continuous integration software, has released OpenMake Meister and Mojo 7.3. This new...

0 replies - 5391 views - 07/22/09 by Justin Sargent in Announcements

Using a Maven Repository on Kenai

One of the missing things on Kenai is a Maven repository. I mean, an "official" Maven repository managed by Kenai staff. This doesn't mean you...

13 replies - 10879 views - 07/20/09 by Fabrizio Giudici in Tips and Tricks

Finally... Maven

I've always been a happy Ant user. Even more so since Ivy has been available. Obviously that puts me in one side of the fence and I've been a very proactive...

6 replies - 5251 views - 07/08/09 by Jose Noheda in Articles

Maven Refcard Released: Meet The Author

DZone released the Maven Refcard yesterday helping you get started with one of the most popular tools among Java developers. I met the author, Matthew...

1 replies - 9260 views - 05/26/09 by James Sugrue in Articles

Performance Management in Continuous Integration

I recently gave  presentations on Performance Management as part of Continuous Integration at QCon London and JAX in Wiesbaden. While I got the feedback that...

1 replies - 5841 views - 05/07/09 by Alois Reitbauer in Articles

Introducing the Bob the Builder Anti-Pattern

If you need a build of some sort, does protocol require you to ask someone to run it? Do you have to wait until the build team Bob is back from lunch in order...

1 replies - 6090 views - 03/23/09 by Eric Minick in Articles

Installing Hudson as a Windows Service

I don't usually recommend using Windows for your build server, but sometimes you may not have a choice. You may be running Microsoft tools as an integral part...

0 replies - 9529 views - 03/18/09 by John Ferguson Smart in Articles

Agile Adoption Refcard for Decreasing Time to Market Available for Download

What is Agile? Do you have the right agile practices for your team? This Refcard focuses on choosing the right agile practices for your team or organization...

3 replies - 24348 views - 03/16/09 by Nitin Bharti in Announcements

Agile Methods - Delivering Software Faster

A core tenet of agile methodologies is to help teams deliver software more quickly. But with the plethora of agile practices available to choose from, teams...

1 replies - 9095 views - 03/16/09 by Kirk Knoernschild in News

JAX-RPC client with Maven2

Recently I needed to make my Maven2 web project communicate with an old style RPC encoded web service. We run on GlassFish which comes with JAX-RPC RI...

2 replies - 17791 views - 03/09/09 by Ryan De Laplante in Tips and Tricks

The future of Java build tools

With a short post on dzone Adam Bien revived an old flame-war: should we use Ant or Maven as our build tool. The post itself seems a little biased on...

13 replies - 22238 views - 02/24/09 by Adam Pohorecki in Articles

Maven or Ant?

Maven vs. Ant is one of the semi-religious topics (like IntelliJ vs. Eclipse, SWT vs. Swing or Spring vs. EJB). Depending on your specific needs, both...

39 replies - 60285 views - 02/17/09 by adam bien in News

Maven - A Whistle Stop Video Tour

 In this presentation, recorded at a recent London Java Community meeting, put on by Skills Matter, Martijn Verburg and Michael McCarthy guide the users...

3 replies - 5862 views - 02/10/09 by Nitin Bharti in Videos

The Three Pillars of Continuous Integration

Continuous Integration commonly known as CI is a process that consists of continuously compiling, testing, inspecting, and deploying source code. In any...

34 replies - 15500 views - 12/15/08 by Meera Subbarao in Articles