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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

Loading and building our starting point


Let's import this project in to Eclipse. Again, the process is quite simple; as we did in the previous chapter, we will make a directory for our Eclipse Project, use cd to enter into the directory containing our project's POM file, and then run the eclipse:configure-workspace goal again, as follows:

mvn -DdownloadSources=true -DdownloadJavadocs=true -DoutputDirectory=target/eclipse-classes -Declipse.workspace=/Users/donaldsimpson/Documents/GravenPluginMasterWorkspace eclipse:eclipse eclipse:configure-workspace

This should download all the dependencies and allow you to import the project to your IDE (navigate to File | Import | General | Existing Projects in to Workspace), in the same way as we did in the previous chapter.

You should now have all the resources and source code, which constitutes this plugin, loaded in to your IDE, and it should look roughly like this:

We will now take a quick look through these files and file types, explain their functions...