Continuous Integration February 14, 2006

Continuous Integration prevents human error and should be in every software developer's toolkit. We'll discuss some of the pitfalls of implementing continuous integration systems, as well as the benefits. We'll compare and contrast various Java based open source CI solutions and if time permits we'll do a hands on download, compilation, and configuration of CruiseControl that at the end of it will have projects being checked out of CVS and Subversion repositories, and building Java projects using Ant, and Maven.