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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

Jelly and Jenkins


The config.jelly configuration file is a simple Jelly template. You can find out more about Jelly in Jenkins in the following link:

https://wiki.jenkins-ci.org/display/JENKINS/Basic+guide+to+Jelly+usage+in+Jenkins

You can read more about Jelly, in general, here at http://commons.apache.org/proper/commons-jelly/. This article states the following:

Jelly is a Java and XML based scripting and processing engine.

The main purpose of Jelly in this context is to provide developers with a highly flexible tag library through which they can quickly and easily create and handle UI view changes.

From a developer point of view, Jelly files interact with Java code to get and set declared values at runtime and presents them to the user via the UI.