Installing Jenkins
Jenkins is an open source application for continuously building and testing software. An excellent publicly available example of a running Jenkins instance is the TorqueBox CI service.[66] This instance runs on the cloud-based CloudBees service, but you can also run a self-hosted Jenkins instance.
You’ll use Jenkins to test your application and deploy it each time changes are pushed to your repository. But rather than setting up a cloud-based or virtual CI server, you’ll run Jenkins on your local machine. There are several binary distributions of Jenkins for specific platforms including an executable WAR file distribution, which is similar to the executable WAR file you created for the Twitalytics stock-service in Chapter ...
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