Hudson: Move to Eclipse, Sonatype donates enhancements, and more

• Oracle announces Hudson move to Eclipse Foundation Oracle plans to contribute the Hudson core code to the Eclipse Foundation. Read Jason van Zyl’s blog or the stories in ADT, eWEEK, and SD Times.

• Sonatype donates enhancements We will contribute our Maven 3.x integration work to the Eclipse Foundation. Watch this community demonstration of the new features. Read more about our contribution in Application Development Trends.

• Sonatype launches Sonatype Pro™ for Hudson See our website for more details.

• Hudson Survey Sonatype and Oracle surveyed over 1,200 Hudson users to see what they’d like to see in future versions. The majority of respondents considered reliability and performance to be most important enhancements. Read a summary blog post or get the full details in this presentation.

Nexus News:  Enterprise Enhancements Coming Soon

We’ve been hard at work on Nexus too – not just Hudson.

• Enterprise Enhancements Our users tell us they want improved enterprise features. Centralized repository management ranks at the top, followed closely by high availability.  We will start rolling out these features this summer, beginning with centralized management. Watch this blog for more details. To try early releases or provide feedback to our engineering team, email us.

• Nexus 1.9.1 We released the latest version of Nexus last month with lots of important, under-the-hood changes.  For the full story check out Brian Fox’s blog post.

• New name You may have noticed that the professional, supported version of Nexus has a new name – Sonatype Pro for Nexus. Only the name has changed, everything else is exactly the same.

Sonatype Training: MVN-101 & MVN-201

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MVN-101: Maven Mechanics – 1 day virtual class Enrollment fee: $595 USD MVN-101 Maven Mechanics comprehensively covers Apache Maven installation and configuration, explains the motivation behind Maven and gives an overview of related development tools. Learn more.

Upcoming MVN-101 Classes Tuesday, June 14, 2011, 9:00AM – 4:00PM CEST (UTC/GMT + 0200) Monday, June 27, 2011, 11:AM-7:00PM EDT (UTC/GMT – 0400)

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Improving Your Java development with Maven 3 and Hudson

Tuesday, June 7, 2011 @ 10:30AM – 11:00AM EDT (UTC/GMT – 0400)

Presenter: Jason van Zyl, Sonatype CTO & Founder

Attend this webinar to learn about the advantages of upgrading to Apache Maven 3, including improved speed, greater stability and increased compatibility. Jason will also talk about the greatly improved support for Maven 3 within Hudson that is easy to configure and supports complex build scenarios with ease. We will cover the Eclipse IDE integration for both Maven and Hudson that improves developer productivity.

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EclipseCon 2011 is just days away, and the Sonatype team has a full schedule of sponsored talks and workshops.

This week we held a webinar on the Future of Hudson – if you missed the first run you can replay the webinar here.

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EclipseCon 2011 is being held in Santa Clara, California from March 21 – 24.

As a Strategic Member of the Eclipse Foundation and as a proud Gold Sponsor, Sonatype is looking forward to another year of great talks, tutorials and BOF’s at EclipseCon 2011. Sonatype technical leaders will host a number of sponsored talks on Tuesday, March 22 in the Cypress Room. Topics we will cover include: Next Generation Development Infrastructure, Hudson Continuous Integration, Tycho Build Conversion, Discovering p2 API’s, Maven 3 and many more.

Check out the full lineup of presentations here.

We hope to see you there! But if you can’t make it, get all of the conference updates from the Sonatype team on Twitter by following the hashtag #EclipseCon.

Event Details:

• Date: March 21-24, 2011
• Location: Hyatt Regency Santa Clara, CA
• Event Website: http://www.eclipsecon.org/2011/

In a recent survey, 80% of developers, managers and architects said lack of integration between their tools was a huge efficiency drain. As teams standardize on tools like Maven, Hudson, and Nexus integration headaches can be real productivity killers.

View this webinar to learn how Sonatype Professional can help your team spend less time chasing problems and more time delivering code.

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Hudson is a continuous integration (CI) server that helps you check-out source code, build and test your project, publish the results and communicate the results to team members. We’ve been working to make it easier to extend Hudson, to reduce the effort required to write a Hudson plugin, and to put in a new foundation for the next level of Hudson interoperability and performance. We’re excited about the work that has been done and the work yet to come. The benefits of these changes include better leveraging of industry standards, increased performance and stability, and tight integration with Maven 3 that provides greater visibility into running builds. Come to learn more about Hudson CI and future plans for the project.

Webinar details:

• Date: Tuesday, March 15, 2011
• Time: 10:30 am Eastern Daylight Time (New York, GMT-04:00)
• Presenter: Jason van Zyl, CTO & Founder of Sonatype
• Register here

EclipseCon is the conference for anyone involved in Eclipse. As a proud member of the Eclipse Foundation, Sonatype is looking forward to another year of great talks, tutorials and BOF’s. We will be hosting a number of extended workshops as well as talks in the Cypress Room all day on Tuesday, March 22, 2011.

Sonatype founder Jason van Zyl will be giving a presentation on Next Generation Development Infrastructure with Maven, m2eclipse, Nexus & Hudson.

Presentation details:

All development organizations eventually converge on a set of tools to reduce costs, lower onboarding time, and leverage knowledge in strong communities to create standard processes. To this end we see in many organizations the emergence of a standard development stack consisting of Maven, m2eclipse, Nexus & Hudson. In this talk, Jason van Zyl, Founder of the Apache Maven project, will discuss the future of Maven and specifically Maven 3.x, the rapidly approaching m2eclipse 1.0 release, the recent Nexus 1.9 release and roadmap, and emerging tools such as Maven Shell and Polyglot Maven. Sonatype itself leverages this stack on a daily basis and this discussion will focus not only on the tools individually, but how they can work together to create a best practices approach to building and delivering your software in your organization.

Event details:

• Date: March 21-24, 2011
• Location: Hyatt Regency Santa Clara, CA
• Event website: http://www.eclipsecon.org/2011/

Stay tuned to the Sonatype blog for updates on Sonatype’s talks and presentations at EclipseCon 2011. And for the latest news and updates from the Sonatype team, follow us on Twitter @SonatypeCM.

These changes are now in the core of Hudson. Even though JSR330 can now be used by plugin authors these changes should, in no way, affect plugin authors using the existing API. Since this question came up on the mailing list, I’ll give a short description of how it works here. The JSR330 integration allows you to take advantage of JSR330, if you wish, by using an alternative plugin strategy. Our new plugin strategy interoperates with the existing, classic plugin strategy. Sonatype’s Hudson Professional distribution actually ships with a mixture of JSR330 plugins and classic plugins and we find this works quite well. We tried to make it easier to use new strategies for wiring up plugin, and Stuart McCulloch has offered this strategy on the Jenkins development list and it appears to have been absorbed as part of JENKINS-8897. Now that the absorbtion of our first proposal is complete we will move on to our next proposals. These proposals are a mixture of project infrastructure proposals and core Hudson proposals.

New infrastructure for plugin developers. Winston Prakash and I have been working on setting up a new infrastructure for Hudson plugin Developers where it’s very easy for them to develop, stage to Nexus OSS, and synchronize their plugins to Maven Central. As part of this work Sonatype is also working on making Hudson plugin development dead-simple with m2eclipse. Winston and I have started testing this new infrastructure with a few plugin developers over the last couple of days and it’s working out quite well.

Plugins update site generation from Maven Central. Once Hudson plugin developers have synchronized their plugins to Maven Central we want them to be made immediately available to Hudson users. I have been working on a plugin for Nexus that will listen for incoming changes to Hudson plugins and dynamically modify the JSON metadata required by the Hudson update manager. The information about available Hudson plugins will be made available from Maven Central as a set of REST services. The integration possibilities here are very interesting.

JAXRS-based REST API. Jeanfrancois Arcand has been working on adding support for the dynamic addition of resources in Jersey and adding support for a JSR330-based component provider. We want to be able to use JSR330 and we want Hudson plugins using JSR330 to be able to dynamically register their own REST resources. Once this work is done on Jersey we will be making the proposal for its inclusion to the Hudson core.

Modularizing the Hudson core using JSR330. Stuart McCulloch has started analyzing the Hudson core and finding ways to help us reduce the complexity by breaking it apart into distinct JSR330 components. This will be an ongoing process, but one we believe will help us with all other work we intend to do with Hudson.

Hudson Core Testing. There is simply no way that we can aggressively refactor the core and know the changes are not harmful without drastically increasing the amount of testing done. This will be another ongoing process and I believe the most important contribution we will be making.

We are moving more carefully and probably slower then we might like, but we feel that, in order to aggressively add features in the future, the testing infrastructure, development infrastructure, and core features need to be in place. All this work I’m talking about will likely take a release or two to get in place but once that is done we will be moving at a radically different pace.

Sonatype Professional is a suite of next generation development infrastructure software that extends the Maven ecosystem to improve both the speed and quality of Java development projects. Sonatype Professional integrates the m2eclipse, Nexus Professional, and Hudson-based continuous integration and adds unique developer onboarding functionality to get you productive fast.

Attend our webinar – Improving Developer Productivity with Sonatype Professional – to learn how this suite can help transform your software development process.

Webinar details:

• Date: Tuesday, March 8, 2011
• Time: 1:00 pm Eastern Standard Time (New York, GMT-05:00)
• Presenter: Blaine Mincey, Sonatype Senior Systems Engineer
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Sonatype’s Jason van Zyl, Pascal Rapicault, and Igor Fedorenko, along with Jan Sievers from SAP AG, are holding a three-hour workshop on building Eclipse plugins and RCP applications with Tycho, Nexus and Hudson.

Build automation and continuous integration are central to the production of quality enterprise software. Without automation it is often difficult to keep track of defects and communicate build status. One of the goals of the Maven project is to bring efficient build automation to enterprise development, and as more organizations start to develop Eclipse plugins and RCP applications, there is a greater need for Maven to interoperate with the Eclipse platform. This tutorial will provide first hand experience in how to use Tycho, Nexus & Hudson to build Eclipse plugins and RCP applications.

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