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Hudson has integrated support for Subversion right out of the box, and only a small amount of configuration is required to integrate with CVS, assuming the CVS client is installed on the Hudson host. Several other source code management (SCM) solutions are supported in the form of Hudson plugins. At time of this writing, the following SCMs are supported:
In this article, I will be using Subversion and the source repository at Java.net, so you won't need to install any of these plugins. (As an aside, I know someone who is working on a MKS SourceIntegrity Hudson plugin. If you are interested in that, send me an email.)
Hudson is a free and open source product hosted at Java.net It was originally written by Kohsuke Kawaguchi, a staff engineer at Sun Microsystems, who announced its release on his blog in February of 2005. Hudson has since had approximately 154 releases.
Here are some of the reasons why I like Hudson, and why I would recommend it to you, barring any unusual requirements:
To use Hudson, you'll need an accessible and supported source control system (see the "Supported SCMs" sidebar for a listing), source that can be built into an artifact, and a working build script. Beyond that, all you really need to install and configure a working Hudson server is an installation of Java, version 1.5 or above, and the Hudson install file, which comes in the form of a Java EE Web archive (WAR). You can start the server very simply using the following command line:
C:\hudson> java -jar hudson.war
It is probably more common, however, to deploy Hudson onto a Java servlet container that is based on the Servlet 2.4 and JSP 2.0 specs, such as GlassFish, Tomcat, JBoss, or Jetty. In the next sections, I will walk you through two Hudson installation scenarios: one using Tomcat 6 on Windows XP, and another using JBoss 4.2.3 on Ubuntu Linux. (JBoss AS 5.0 was released after this article's submission date.)
I will assume that you already have version 1.5 or higher of Java installed on your Windows XP machine. Following the steps below will install Tomcat 6.0.18 using the Windows Service Installer, so that Hudson starts immediately after Windows XP boots up and will run in the background even when no user is logged in. The download file for Tomcat is apache-tomcat-6.0.18.exe, which you should execute to begin the Tomcat install.