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Improve your build process with IBM Rational Build Forge, Part 2: Automate builds for a real-world Tomcat project

Ian Limn (ianlimn@au1.ibm.com), Senior IT Specialist, IBM

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 Rational ®Build Forge can extend a simple compile and package build process by adding customization and deployment capability. Go from a manual method to automating: checking for code changes; getting the latest source; compiling and packaging; customizing; copying to and restarting a deployment server; and sending e-mail notification that a new version is available. This series shows you how to implement a build management system that uses and extends your existing automation technologies. With this 2-part series, go from zero to 96 bpd (builds per day) in two days.

Date: 11 Dec 2007
Level: Intermediate
PDF: A4 and Letter (5170 KB | 61 pages)Get Adobe® Reader®

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Before you start

About this tutorial

In Part 1 of this series you installed a Rational Build Forge system, and remotely managed a Hello World build. In this tutorial, learn to build a real-world project: Jakarta Tomcat. Tomcat is one of the most successful open source projects in the world. It is a servlet engine used in production environments in large and small deployments.

Objectives

Welcome to the second day. In this tutorial, learn to:

Build Tomcat from scratch.
Automate the build using Build Forge.
Extend build management to deploy Tomcat.
Add an automated custom tweak to the deployment parameters.
Get 'live' versions of Tomcat code from the repository.
Configure Build Forge to periodically check for updates to the code, and trigger builds accordingly.

Prerequisites

It is assumed that you have completed Part 1 in this series. It is also 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 language. Experience with Apache Ant and Subversion is helpful, but not required.

System requirements

To run the examples in this tutorial, you need:

These are not the latest versions of Java, Ant, and Subversion. Initial attempts to build Tomcat with Java 6 failed. Changing build properties might have fixed the problem, but the effort involved could affect the ease-of-use of this tutorial.

An Internet connection is required for the Tomcat build, and for a connection to the Tomcat Subversion repository.

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