New continuous integration server

We're finally making our continuous integration server public. It took several months of fine tuning to get to this point. The main issues were with making sure that  CruiseControl , Hudson, Selenium, and FireFox 3 were happy with each other.

http://hudson.liferay.com

On every commit, it’ll compile everything (including JSPs), reload the database, and deploy.

Then it’ll run about 800 backend unit tests and then another 200 Selinium frontend tests.

Total build and test time right now takes about 25 minutes.

Thanks go out to Raju, Shuyang, Mike Han, Mike Saechang and JR.

[Raju Uppalapati]

Brian,
Hudson is quickly becoming a better alternative to CruiseControl. I recommend that you switch to Hudson for the following reasons:

o JSR 286 Portlet available to fetch and display Project status from Hudson.
o It has a very vibrant community behind it.
o Much more usable and maintainable than CruiseControl.
o Multiple releases per month and is one of the most active project on java.net
o Large number of plugins available and in development.
o Glassfish, OpenESB, JBoss etc are using it.

I have experience using it. Let me know if I can be of help. Infact we are already running a hudson process for the Liferay project.

[Mika Koivisto]

I've got to agree with Raju. I've tried just about every freely available CI tool and it was pretty clear that Hudson is the best. I recommend trying it you might even love it.

[Peter Shin]

I was looking over CI tools and from the reviews I liked Hudson as well. Good support for inter-project dependencies and seems simpler to use compared to Cruise Control.

[wadood rahman]

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[Brian Chan]

Ok, we should migrate to Hudson then. Shouldn't be that bad. Thanks for the input everyone. Raju (we'll need to ping you!).

[Brian Chan]

Ok, http://hudson.liferay.com is now the new server. MUCH better than CruiseControl.

[Gary Diamond]

Brian,

The Hudson server doesn't seem to be accessible. Has the URL changed or is it no longer available to the public?

[Gary Diamond]

The URL for the Hudson server is not http://hudson-01.liferay.com

[jsd jsd]

Hi,
I'm currently working on a Hudson / Liferay / Weblogic integration. Anyone have any pointers or docs on this setup?

Thanks,
John