Into the symmetry

It means nothing to a lot of people. It does means a lot to me! My first commit to an Apache project: http://svn.apache.org/viewvc?view=revision&revision=1236276

Time for a little self celebration :) After a flaw found about couple of years ago, a half goof last year and some information disclosure found lately I am now officially Facebook white hat . Cool... A.

It is time to return back to work, after a well deserved break. Following the release 1.0 is time to think about the next release. Well, version 1.0 is available and up-and-running but I bet a lot of people wouldn't find it really useful. This because for to use it, you need to disable the WAS security. It can be acceptable if both Hudson and WAS seat in the same (well protected) LAN and, for example the, WAS is a machine used from the developers as Reference box. But if WAS needs to be well secured and/or in production alas. Now next release should cover WAS 6.1/7 with security enabled. I have already a working proof of concept so it is just matter of polish a bit the code. Here start the "bad news". For having the deploy websphere builder to work with security enabled you need an IBM JRE. This sounds as a big limitation and infact it is. To overcome it you need to install the hudson.war in WAS rather than in Tomcat for example. Well to be perfectly honest though whoe...

As promise: http://wiki.hudson-ci.org/display/HUDSON/Deploy+WebSphere+Plugin More to follow!! A.

Ready to ship! Eventually I have decided to go for a new plugin having a dependency with the existing deploy plugin. This, in my opinion, is the best solution because, being WebSphere a proprietary product and being some jar not redistributable there is a needing of a little extra configuration (just copying a couple of proprietary jar on the classpath) at the end of the plugin installation. Anyway more details will be on the wikis (either my personal one and the one of hudson if I can publish my plugin) once I got the right to check-in on the hudson java.net repository. So hung on for a little while.... Antonio

It has been a while I have been playing with Hudson . It is way better than any other integration server I have seen and is crazily simple to extend. I'd love to use it at work but for the moment we are still stucked with Cruise Control. Said that, I think the integration with the " WebSphere world " can be kind of improved. I mean Hudson war file can be installed on WAS; moreover there are already few WebSphere/IBM plugins as the WAS Builder and the RAD Builder . But either these than the out of the box deploy plugin don't support any WebSphere server. The WAS Builder plugin allow you to deploy on WebSphere but for what I undestood you need to write your own script. I know WebSphere is a proprietary product and is a kind of closed world, and WAS itself has been defined from Hudson users " exhotic " but, being working with WebSphere for a while, and predicting I'll be working with it for yet another while, I'd like to have an out of the box mech...

Lol it made me laugh: Too geeky?