Hudson 3 can also be used to deploy a WAR or EAR file to an application server. This can introduce the practice of continuous deployment in your IT organization. Continuous deployment is an aspect of extreme programming (XP) and is designed to improve the efficiency of software deployment.
We will use two plugins to deploy our WAR file: Deploy to container Plugin and Copy Artifact Plugin. We will install these plugins by searching for them in the Hudson Plugin Manager screen and then installing them, as described in Chapter 4, Installing and Developing Hudson Plugins. From the Hudson home page, select the Manage Hudson link on the left navigation pane and then select the Manage Plugins link from the middle pane of the Manage Hudson page. From the Hudson Plugin Manager page, select the Available tab and the Search tab. Enter Deploy to container Plugin
as Search String, and click...