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Extending Jenkins

By : Donald Simpson
Book Image

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

Chapter 5. Extension Points

In this chapter, we will introduce and explore the theory and design concepts used while developing Jenkins plugins. We will cover the high-level concepts here with some generic examples as a preparation for the next two chapters where we will see how to implement these ideas for real.

In this chapter, we will take a look at the following design patterns:

  • Interfaces

  • Abstract classes

  • Singletons

Also, we will review several important design concepts:

  • Design by contract

  • Extension points

  • Creating extensions

  • Annotations