Continuous Build with Jenkins on Windows with Tomcat, github, Ant and Eclipse
Continuous Build with Jenkins with Tomcat, github, Ant and Eclipse A quick look at setting up a Jenkins job to automatically build and deploy a Dynamic Web Project. For Windows here is what you need: Tomcat or another web container Ensure the default ports are changed, for my examples I used 8787 for tomcat Tomcat is installed and running http://tomcat.apache.org/tomcat-7.0-doc/ Eclipse with a github plugin see my previous post http://straightforwardit.blogspot.com/2011/11/setting-up-eclipse-for-github.html You have a Java project checked into github.com If not, https://github.com/sfbishop/TestProject is accessible A github account (see github.com) Remember to setup the SSH keys Jenkins (see http://jenkins-ci.org/ ) Download the lastest war file github client software http://help.github.com/win-set-up-git/ Start Jenkins java -jar jenkins.war Visit http://localhost:8080/ to access Jenkins Install Jenkins as a service ...