Jenkins

Recently in a project I encountered the following problem: The development team used Git with a branch-per-feature-like workflow and the integration server, Bamboo in this case, was configured not only to run the integration-tests for the master-branch but also for every change in a feature branch. As the team developed a Java EE web application ports like 8080 occasionally were already bound and builds failed. I knew a plug-in for Jenkins CI I to search for available ports and assign them to a build variable but I wanted to control such information directly within the Maven build life-cycle so I searched and finally found Sonatype’s Port Allocator Plug-in for Maven. ...

Recently I needed a quick solution to deploy a Java EE 6 web application on a GlassFish instance automatically and subsequent to a successful build of the project on the integration server. It took only a few steps using Jenkins, Maven and the Cargo plugin and I’d like to share this quick solution with you here. Prerequisites We need the following software installed and configured: Git Jenkins / Hudson + Git Plugin installed Maven 3 GlassFish 3.1 JDK 7 ...