Dave Johnson on open web technologies, social software and software development https://rollerweblogger.org/roller/feed/entries/atom 2026-03-23T14:54:34+00:00 Apache Roller https://rollerweblogger.org/roller/entry/hudson Dave Johnson 2007-03-05T08:08:24+00:00 2007-03-05T16:10:19+00:00 <p> I&#39;ve never used a build or &quot;<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Continuous_Integration">continuous integration</a>&quot; server before so I&#39;ve got nothing to compare <a href="https://hudson.dev.java.net/">Hudson</a> to, but I can say this: it&#39;s amazingly easy to install and configure. Just drop the hudson.war file in Tomcat&#39;s webapps directory or deploy to your favorite app server and start setting up build jobs. </p><p>Hudson can pull from CVS and Subversion. It can run Maven builds, Ant builds and shell scripts. It can publish&nbsp; javadocs, build artifacts, test reports and RSS feeds. The UI is simple but full of options and with plenty of built-in help. Here are the projects I&#39;m monitoring with Hudson:<br></p><p>&nbsp;<img vspace="0" hspace="0" border="0" align="bottom" src="http://rollerweblogger.org/roller/resource/myhudson.jpg" alt="screenshot of hudson"><br>My Hudson is setup on old (Pentium 450mhz) Linux box and I&#39;ve got it setup to poll my projects every 30 minutes and do a full rebuild and test on any change. I&#39;m subscribed via RSS, so I&#39;ll quickly learn of any failure. Very handy.<br><br>Read more about Hudson at <a href="https://hudson.dev.java.net/">the project&#39;s Java.net site</a> and the Aquarium has a nice set of <a href="http://blogs.sun.com/theaquarium/tags/hudson">Hudson links</a>.<br></p>