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checking for maven snapshot dependency changes on continuous integration server

There is a cruisecontrol plugin that checks for changes to snapshot dependencies, triggering a build if required. This involves using the Maven embedder to download the dependencies, then checking the timestamps of the snapshot files in the local repository. This works ok, but involves downloading all the parents and dependencies to chec...

Electric Cloud / BuildForge: worth the expense?

I just saw a demo of electric cloud and it was very interesting, but it is expensive. Pro: Excellent features - extract the secret sauce from my builds and make them more standardized with reusable steps - parallelize the build to speed it up and use my build farm more effectively - restart the build from any step - integrate tes...

buildforge problem

when i tried to run the job i am getting the error saying that No server could be found matching all conditions please any one help me on this ...

Using double-quotes in a SQLCMD query

I'd like to issue the following command through SQLCMD: IF DB_ID('My_DB') IS NOT NULL DROP DATABASE My_DB There are a few caveats though... The database name is dynamic The program which is running the command (BuildForge) will not replace a variable if it appears within single quotes So, I can't use: -Q"IF DB_ID('${db_name}') IS...

Can BuildForge do what Hudson CI is currently doing?

I am looking for a comparison between IBM Build Forge (Rational) and Hudson CI. At work we have full licenses for BuildForge but recently we started using Hudson for doing continuous integration and automating other tasks. I used BuildForge very little and I would like to see if there are any special advantages of BuildForge over Hudso...