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ThoughtWorks launches CruiseControl Enterprise
ThoughtWorks has launched a CruiseControl Enterprise project to enhance and support CruiseControl. InfoQ speaks with Paul Julius, Product Manager of CruiseControl Enterprise about the new features and the relationship between CruiseControl Enterprise and the open-source distribution.
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Database Migration and Refactoring with LiquiBase
In recent years, there has been a fair amount of discussion developing databases through a series of fine-grained, trackable changes with automatic migration, sometimes called 'database refactoring'. If you're not using ActiveRecord in Ruby on Rails, and particularly if you're using Java, LiquiBase is an interesting candidate: an open-source tool for database refactoring and migration.
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When Ruby Builds Faster Than Java: Buildr
Maven 2.0 recalcitrants have been looking for alternatives with less XML and easier plugin development. Buildr might be the solution, and even boasts faster performance than Maven!
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Catching Up with Maven 2
Maven is a pattern-based build framework for Java and J2EE projects; more than just scripting builds for arbitrary projects, Maven knows about J2EE, Struts, Hibernate, etc. and has a prescribed way of structuring and organizing a project from its moment of creation through testing, packaging, and deployment.
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TeamCity 2 Continous Build Platform adds Eclipse & Visual Studio Plugins
Jetbrains has released TeamCity 2; their Continuous Build platform adds more VCS support as well as IDE plugins. Eclipse support includes a personal builds, views of builds triggered by the developer's check-ins, offending code highlighting, etc. The VS plugin includes Team Foundation Server integration, managing TFS specific tasks including check in policies and notes and TFS work items.
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Enunciate: Java code-first, compiled-contract WS deployment framework
enunciate 1.0, a J2EE web service deployment framework that provides a complete development-to-deployment system for creating SOAP, REST, and JSON endpoints, was released last week. enunciate is not a web service stack like Axis2 or XFire. Rather, it uses XFire and Spring to provide a code-first development model (not in itself novel) that enforces compatibility contracts at compile time.
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ThoughtWorks Releases CruiseControl.rb
ThoughtWorks announced release of CruiseControl.rb 1.0, a new open-source continuous integration tool for Ruby / Rails projects.
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Continuous Integration Server QuickBuild 1.2 Released
PMEase has released version 1.2 of QuickBuild, a commercial version of the open-source continuous integration server Luntbuild.
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TeamCity 1.2 Released - Continuous Integration Server for Java and .NET
JetBrains has released version 1.2 of TeamCity, a continuous integration server which now includes a plugin for Visual Studio 2005, along with support for Visual SourceSafe.
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JRake: Ant-Killer Combo of JRuby and Rake
As JRuby becomes a viable solution for real development tasks, former ThoughtWorker Matt Foemmel is hard at work improving the world of build scripts by replacing ant with rake. He's winning fans among heavy-hitters such as Martin Fowler.
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Ruby Test Integration With CruiseControl.net
Brent Heinz shows how to integrate your Ruby on Rails test suite into your CruiseControl build process so you can see the test results in the web dashboard.
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Continuous Integration Server AnthillPro 3.1 Released
Urbancode has released AnthillPro 3.1, a commercial version of the Anthill OS open-source continuous integration server.
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JRake: Build, Test, and Deploy Java applications without XML
JRake is the latest entry in build tools for Java that is based on a scripting language. JRake leverages JRuby and the Rake build tool for Ruby to make building, running tests, and deploying web applications quick and easy.
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Visual Studio for Database Professionals Released
Microsoft has developed what they call "tools for building SQL databases in a managed project environment with support for versioning, deployment, unit testing, refactoring, and off-line SQL development." These tools, released under the name Visual Studio for Database Professionals, claim to offer a way to develop databases in the same off-line fashion as traditional applications.
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Team Foundation Server Roadmap Revealed
Brian Harry has released the roadmap for Team Foundation Server. Areas included in the roadmap are Servicing, Out of Band releases, and Major releases. Highlights include two, possibly three, services, support for TOAD and the branched projects.