Chapter 6. Running Your Build Scripts

CruiseControl is a wrapper around Apache Ant for automatically executing build scripts. This chapter looks in detail at how to create, install, and configure an environment for running CruiseControl.

Aims of This Chapter

To repeatedly and reliably build any project, you should automate as much of the build execution as possible. For Java development environments using Apache Ant, one common tool that is typically used to achieve this is CruiseControl. After reading this chapter, you will be able to

  • Understand the difference between manual and automatic builds, as well as how a tool such as CruiseControl can best be used to support an automated build process.

  • Create a CruiseControl project to automate the execution ...

Get IBM Rational ClearCase, Ant, and CruiseControl: The Java Developers Guide to Accelerating and Automating the Build Process now with the O’Reilly learning platform.

O’Reilly members experience books, live events, courses curated by job role, and more from O’Reilly and nearly 200 top publishers.