Hudson 3 Essentials -- Table of Contents -- Hudson 3 Essentials -- Credits -- About the Author -- About the Reviewers -- www.PacktPub.com -- Support files, eBooks, discount offers and more -- Why Subscribe? -- Free Access for Packt account holders -- Preface -- What this book covers -- What you need for this book -- Who this book is for -- Conventions -- Reader feedback -- Customer support -- Downloading the example code -- Errata -- Piracy -- Questions -- 1. Why Hudson? -- Benefits of Hudson -- Hudson can improve project health -- Hudson can automate the build and deployment process -- IT roles in relation to Hudson -- Hudson plugins and integrations -- The Hudson back story -- Summary -- 2. Installing and Running Hudson -- Environment variables -- Hudson prerequisites -- Downloading Hudson -- Running Hudson WAR without an application server -- Unix/Linux installation -- Tomcat installation and setup -- Deploying Hudson to Tomcat -- JBoss AS 7 installation and setup -- Deploying Hudson to JBoss AS 7 -- GlassFish 4 installation and setup -- Modifying GlassFish 4 settings -- Deploying Hudson to GlassFish 4 -- Hudson CI Server initial setup -- Hudson Home directory -- Summary -- 3. Configuring and Securing Hudson -- Hudson home page -- Hudson help -- Configuring Hudson -- Configuring the system -- Configuring JDK -- Configuring Ant -- Configuring Maven -- Configuring Hudson for sending e-mails -- Backing up Hudson -- Configuring security -- Hudson authentication -- Hudson authorization -- Defining a simple security policy -- Summary -- 4. Installing and Developing Hudson Plugins -- What is a plugin? -- Installing plugins -- Installing featured plugins -- Installing recommended plugins -- Installing other plugins -- Plugin configuration -- The ThinBackup plugin -- Configuring our backup strategy -- Creating a Hudson plugin.

Downloading and installing Apache Maven -- Adding the Maven HPI plugin -- Using JDK 1.6 -- Creating the sample-plugin project -- Structure of the sample-plugin project -- Creating the sample-plugin HPI file -- Running the sample-plugin project -- Creating a sample job -- What happened? -- How did that happen? -- What else can I do? -- Deploying sample-plugin to our Hudson installation -- The sample-plugin project source code on Github -- Summary -- 5. Building and Delivering with Hudson -- Using Maven to build a sample project -- Creating a free-style software job for the Maven job -- Configuring Source Code Management for the Maven job -- Configuring the build step for the Maven job -- Saving the Maven job -- Manually building the Maven job -- The Hudson home directory structure -- Using Gradle to build a sample project -- Creating a free-style software job for the Gradle job -- Configuring Source Code Management for the Gradle job -- Saving the Gradle job -- Manually building the Gradle job -- Using Grails to build a sample project -- Creating a free-style software job for the Grails job -- Configuring Source Code Management for the Grails job -- Installing the Grails Hudson 3 plugin -- Downloading and configuring Grails -- Configuring the build step for the Grails job -- Saving the Grails job -- Manually building the Grails job -- Deploying a WAR file to an application server -- Installing the Deploy to container Plugin and Copy Artifact Plugin -- Reconfiguring Tomcat -- Configuring the Deploy build step -- Executing and validating the job -- Performing a custom action with a Groovy script -- Configuring Groovy -- Adding a Groovy build step to the job -- The testScript.groovy Groovy script -- Summary -- 6. Testing and Reporting with Hudson -- The hudsonDemoProject -- Creating a free-style software job -- Configuring Source Code Management.

The project layout -- Generating and publishing Javadoc -- Configuring a post-build action for the hudsonDemoProject job -- Running and publishing JUnit test reports -- Updating the Gradle build step for the hudsonDemoProject job -- Configuring a post-build action -- Static source code analysis -- PMD -- FindBugs -- Checkstyle -- More about the Gradle build file -- Updating the Gradle build step -- Configuring post-build actions for the hudsonDemoProject job -- Building and analyzing the results for the hudsonDemoProject -- Trend analysis of hudsonDemoProject -- Summary -- 7. Upgrading Hudson and the Team Concept feature -- Checking Hudson and plugin upgrade availability -- Backing up Hudson -- Upgrading Hudson automatically -- Installing a new standalone Hudson WAR file -- Installing a new Hudson WAR file on Tomcat -- Installing a new Hudson WAR file on JBoss AS 7 -- Installing a new Hudson WAR file on GlassFish 4 -- Team Concept -- Creating new users -- Configuring team-based authorization -- Creating teams -- Adding members to teams -- Creating new jobs -- Assigning jobs to teams -- Verifying job visibility -- Summary -- A. Online Resources -- Software downloads -- Hudson resources -- Application server resources -- Hudson 3 Essentials book projects -- Index.