Q1. I actually haven’t heard of Cruise Control and was wondering if you can check the files out of svn and build/deploy them from maven without using cc?

Cruise Control is using for Continuous Integration. If you want to keep track your Build system then u can use CC. You can schedule your builds in this. For example while checking in some files, after a certain time etc. Configure emails also regarding with this build result. A lot more to say about this…

Q2. since we are just now implementing maven, what you suggest the best way to create poms for the existing project be

Plugins will be very useful in this case. Now we have so many maven plugins for eclipse and netbeans also. If you are starting a new project then this plugin will create you a template and you need to add more dependencies. If you are changing an existing project to maven then you need to spend some time to create POM. The Parent option will helpful to you to reduce POM works for the Child projects.

Q1. I actually haven’t heard of Cruise Control and was wondering if you can check the files out of svn and build/deploy them from maven without using cc?

Cruise Control is using for Continuous Integration. If you want to keep track your Build system then u can use CC. You can schedule your builds in this. For example while checking in some files, after a certain time etc. Configure emails also regarding with this build result. A lot more to say about this…

Q2. since we are just now implementing maven, what you suggest the best way to create poms for the existing project be

Plugins will be very useful in this case. Now we have so many maven plugins for eclipse and netbeans also. If you are starting a new project then this plugin will create you a template and you need to add more dependencies. If you are changing an existing project to maven then you need to spend some time to create POM. The Parent option will helpful to you to reduce POM works for the Child projects.

This site is great! Thanks for posting so much valuable information. I’m fairly new to deployment methodologies but have decided to go with maven2. I have a few questions I was hoping you wouldn’t mind answering for me. First off, I have a Java Enterprise application that I need to deploy to a glassfish server for both development and production environments. Currently, we are using svn for our version control and netbeans 6.5 for our ide. So obviously this blog interested me. I actually haven’t heard of Cruise Control and was wondering if you can check the files out of svn and build/deploy them from maven without using cc? Also, since we are just now implementing maven, what you suggest the best way to create poms for the existing project be. I know netbeans has a maven plugin, but I haven’t had much time to play with it yet. Thank you so much!

(project name=”myproj” buildafterfailed=”false”)

(property name=”log.dir” value=”./logs/${project.name}”/)
(property name=”projects.dir” value=”./projects”/)
(property name=”projects.checkout.dir” value=”${projects.dir}”/)
(property name=”project.log.dir” value=”${projects.dir}/logs/${project.name}”/)
(property name=”maven.home” value=”/xxx/apache-maven-2.0.9″/)
(property name=”ant.home” value=”/xxx/cruisecontrol-bin-2.8.2/apache-ant-1.7.0″/)
(property name=”schedule.interval” value=”600″/)
(property name=”quiet.period” value=”300″/)
(schedule interval=”120″)
(composite)
(exec command=”/xxx/envsetup.sh” workingdir=”/xxx/cruisecontrol-bin-2.8.2/”/)

(maven2 mvnhome=”${maven.home}” pomfile=”projects/${project.name}/pom.xml” goal=”clean install”/)

(/composite)

(/schedule)

First of all, let me thank you for sharing this guide.

I am facing some issues and hope that someone will help me out here :

My requirement : I need to set a few path variables before kicking of my maven build.
So here is my config.xml

What s happening is that the script seems to have run, but the props are not set because my build fails and says ${version} not set.(this is one of the path variables in envsetup.sh).

If I replace the exec command with

OR

It still fails, could someone pls help me out here

TIA
vck

(exec command=”svn” args=”update” workingdir=”${project.dir}/xyz”/)

replace the () with angle brackets.