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Extending Jenkins

By : Donald Simpson
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Extending Jenkins

By: Donald Simpson

Overview of this book

Jenkins CI is the leading open source continuous integration server. It is written in Java and has a wealth of plugins to support the building and testing of virtually any project. Jenkins supports multiple Software Configuration Management tools such as Git, Subversion, and Mercurial. This book explores and explains the many extension points and customizations that Jenkins offers its users, and teaches you how to develop your own Jenkins extensions and plugins. First, you will learn how to adapt Jenkins and leverage its abilities to empower DevOps, Continuous Integration, Continuous Deployment, and Agile projects. Next, you will find out how to reduce the cost of modern software development, increase the quality of deliveries, and thereby reduce the time to market. We will also teach you how to create your own custom plugins using Extension points. Finally, we will show you how to combine everything you learned over the course of the book into one real-world scenario.
Table of Contents (16 chapters)
Extending Jenkins
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewer
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

NetBeans


The NetBeans IDE has an inbuilt functionality to monitor Jenkins via the HudsonInNetBeans service.

Selecting the Services tab within NetBeans will reveal a Hudson Builders item where you can define your Jenkins instance and configure which items you would like to monitor based on the View definitions available on your Jenkins server:

Once you have registered the server, you will be notified of any failures by a popup within the IDE. You can read more about the functionality and configuration of this extension here: http://wiki.netbeans.org/HudsonInNetBeans#General_setup_and_view.

In addition, the Build Monitor plugin can also be added to include status bar notifications—it can be downloaded from the plugin home page here: http://plugins.netbeans.org/plugin/814/build-monitor.

Then, the plugin is installed from Tools | Plugins menu item by selecting the Downloaded option and navigating to the recently downloaded file with an .nbm extension:

Now, simply select Install, agree to the terms...