By Barnaby Golden , 17 June, 2014 Jenkins Plugins Jenkins is an excellent choice for continuous integration as it has numerous plugins available, is well supported and is open source. The following is a list of some of the most useful plugins and how they can be used. GIT Plugin
By Barnaby Golden , 10 June, 2014 Java 8 early adopters A word of caution for anyone switching to Java 8 (which is now officially released by Sun). Issues I have found so far: Eclipse The previous version of Kepler Eclipse runs with Java 8, but it only understands compliance levels up to Java 7.
By Barnaby Golden , 10 August, 2011 Use Maven to fail builds on code quality I'm a great believer in getting quality in as early as possible in the development cycle. Checks that run automatically in an IDE are best (for example the Checkstyle/PMD plug-ins in Eclipse). But these have one drawback: they are not enforced.
