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Maven 2 support in Hudson

posted 11:45AM Feb 05, 2007 with tags continuousintegration hudson maven opensource softwarequality by Lars Trieloff

Some days ago I wrote about Hudson, a continuous integration server:
It is not as feature rich as some other continuous integration systems listed on the Continuous Integration Server Feature Matrix, it's Maven integration is not as deep as Continuum's but it does its job, is easy to setup and offers a clean and friendly user interface.
At least for the Maven 2 support I have to revise my statement. With Hudson 1.78 released yesterday there is experimental Maven 2 support. Kohsuke Kawaguchi, creator of Hudson writes:
Since I rely more on Maven2, I wanted more Maven2 support in Hudson. It can already build a Maven project, but it didn't natively understand Maven — so you still have to specify what jar files to archive, what javadoc to copy, what builds to run once your build is finished, etc. But since much of the information is in POM already, I thought it would be really nice if Hudson can understand POM. So I started working on this some time ago, and it's finally getting into a presentable shape. The newly posted Hudson 1.78 is the first version with this feature enabled.
One thing I like most is the relatively loose integration with Maven. In Continuum for example you have to upload a pom.xml and if this pom does not include properly configured version control system links, you cannot start a build. With Hudson you still have the opportunity to start with an underspecified pom and a Subversion URL and your sceduled build is prepared in minutes.

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