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Improve your build process with IBM Rational Build Forge, Part 1: Create a continuous build and integration environment

Ian Limn (ianlimn@au1.ibm.com), Senior IT Specialist, IBM Japan
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Ian Limn is a senior software specialist in the Rational brand, and is the lead technical specialist for IBM Rational Build Forge in Australia and New Zealand. Prior to joining IBM, Ian worked in software development in the public sector where he was responsible for introducing innovative solutions to the challenges of software development for large teams. He uses this experience to help IBM Rational customers realize the benefits of IBM software development capability, particularly with build and release automation.

Summary:  Learn how to implement a build management system that uses and extends your existing automation technologies. This tutorial shows, step-by-step, how to install and configure IBM® Rational® Build Forge™ to manage builds for Jakarta Tomcat from source code. Integrate Build Forge with the Subversion version control system, used by the Tomcat team, for continuous integration so Rational Build Forge rebuilds and deploys the latest version of Tomcat whenever changes are committed to the Subversion repository. Rational Build Forge is legendary for its rapid return on investment. Learn how the implementation described in this tutorial can reuse your investment in existing build automation scripting. With this 2-part series, go from zero to 96 bpd (builds per day) in two days.

Date:  04 Dec 2007
Level:  Intermediate
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About this tutorial

In this tutorial, learn how to install and configure IBM Rational® Build Forge® to build the open source project Jakarta Tomcat. Create a continuous integration environment for Tomcat, with builds occurring whenever changes are committed to the Tomcat Subversion repository. With this 2-part series, go from zero to 96 bpd (builds per day) in two days. This tutorial covers the tasks for the first day.

If you are a developer involved in build automation, or a system operator providing infrastructure support for build and deploy functions, this series is for you.

Part 2 (the second day) of this series describes how Build Forge provides for the reuse of existing project scripting. It also covers how Build Forge can extend a simple compile and package build process by adding customization and deployment capability.

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Objectives

After completing this tutorial you will know:

  • Basic Build Forge concepts
  • How to install and set up Rational Forge
  • How to create Build Forge objects to represent build servers for the tutorial
  • How to configure a Hello World project to run

Prerequisites

It is assumed that you have some understanding of building applications based on Java™ technology. Build Forge is language agnostic, but the Tomcat project is written in the Java programming language. Experience with Apache Ant and Subversion is helpful, but not required.

System requirements

To complete the steps in this tutorial, you should have access to the following tools, which you can get by using the contact information on the Rational Build Forge product overview:

IBM Rational Build Forge Console V7.0.1The Build Forge server
IBM Rational Build Forge, Agent V7.0.1Controls the remote build and deploy server during builds
IBM Rational License Server V7.0 WindowsProvides licenses to Build Forge
The following licenses:
  • Build Forge Enterprise Edition Server floating evaluation license
  • Build Forge Enterprise Edition floating user evaluation license (10 copies)
  • Build Forge Enterprise Edition Adapter Toolkit evaluation license
MySQL 5.0.45 A database for Build Forge to store configurations and log output

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