Note that my answers are what Maven 2 can do. On Fri, Aug 12, 2005 at 05:23:25PM -0400, Rizwan Merchant wrote: > > I am working on implementing a build process for our project. This process > is required to be run as a cron job. > The build process is going to do a number of things, such as: > 1. Back up build directory
This step shouldn't be required, I would suggest that you always start with a clean directory. > 2. Check out source code Maven should be able to do this, yeah. > 3. set up build environment What steps do you want to perform here? > 4. build the project > 5. clean the database > 6. build database I assume you mean a database that's used as a part of tests? If so, do the re-initialization in setUp() in your test cases. This will also make your tests independent of Maven (or whatever you build with) enabling you to run the tests from an IDE. > 7. Perform regression tests If you implement this through a set of JUnit tests Maven can perform them for you. > 8. Failure notification (emails to various groups/individuals) > etc > etc > > My questions are: > > Does maven2 provide functionality to manage and run this entire build > process? I am not sure if I am clear or not, but would I need to write a > batch file that will individually call each of the above tasks, or can I use > maven2 to achieve this functionalitiy. > > Also, can all of the individual tasks mentioned above be performed using > maven2? or do i need to achieve some of them using other means, such as ant > ? (for example, i know I can achieve 2 and 4 using maven2..what about the > others?) Maven 2 + Continuum[1] can together do this. Maven 2 will do the build parts and Continuum will do the cleaning, checking out and notifaction bits. [1]: http://maven.apache.org/continuum/ -- Trygve
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