Hudson Build & Deployment Script - Part 1

In Part1, I'm going to talk about how to install & configure hudson continuous integration server.

Hudson Installing & Configuration:

http://wiki.eclipse.org/Hudson-ci/Use_Hudson#Installing_Hudson

Install Hudson as windows service (will work only if the svn is server based. Won’t work for file based svn)

1. Download latest hudsonxx.war from here & start the Hudson server as: java -jar hudsonxx.war
2. http://wiki.eclipse.org/Hudson-ci/Installing_Hudson_Windows_Service
3. Make sure you have Java set in classpath wherever the Hudson server is running. Next time you will notice Hudson is started as a service. For file based SVN, remember to start the Hudson serer as: "java -jar hudsonxx.war" instead as a service, otherwise Hudson won’t recognize the file based svn URL. In case the SVN is a server based, then you can use Hudson as service.
4. Refer to system configuration below. Remember to install plugin for subversion from Manage Hudson->Manage Plugins->Available (tab)->Featured-> Hudson Subversion Plug-in & install

Refer installed plugins below. You can install additional plugins for your use case. Some of the below may be not required.

 

 

5.  Refer below screenshots for system configurations.

System Configurations:

 

 

6. Create a new Job & name it whatever you want. Click on Configure to configure the parameters for the Job

In the sample job below, I defined this build to be parametrized. This way I'm making my job flexible. If you notice, I also defined a 'CODE_REVISION' & 'MANIFEST_BUILD_VERSION' parameters below to take care of triggering build for a specific code revision. We will look at how these parameters are utilized in build script in Part 2.

 

 

Optionally for secured access for a team, configure security.

You & whoever wants to control build environment for this job would need to create account to be able to manage the job.

 

You can also create a batch file to be run whenever machine starts by

1. Create batch file with command:

"C:\Program Files\Java\jdk1.6.0_37\bin\java" -jar C:\Oracle\Hudson\hudson-3.1.2.war

2. Now copy above Hudson startup batch & startWeblogic.cmd file in windows startup folder.

For creating a ojdeploy based build script for your application proceed to Part-2