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What is BuildProcess ?

BuildProcess is a set of tools designed to automatic perform J2EE tasks : AutoDeploy is the main JEE deployment tool. The JEE administrator describes the list of network environments (application server, applications, database, etc) in a main XML file. This XML file can be modified by hand or using WebAutoDeploy, the web admin console. Periodically, AutoDeploy read this description file and update the environment. More informations. BuildEraser is an automatic file deletion tool. The disk space saturation is a classical problem for J2EE administrators. In fact, application server and J2EE applications generate a lot of files (log file, temporary files, etc). On the other hand, automatic build tools such as CruiseControl or AntHill, generate log files too. BuidEraser provides a multi-OS, automatic and networked way to delete files. WebBuildEraser is the web admin console of BuildEraser. More informations. AsMon is a web application which store description of all J2EE environments that the administrator need to manage. It store a lot of data such as the application server description (type, host, network port in use, etc), database description, application description (URI, version, etc), etc. AsMon can import data from the AutoDeploy XML file but has a discover system included : the administrator defines a network mask and AsMon sniff all IP address/network ports in the netmask to discover application server. AsMon includes monitoring tools to know if the environment is available or not and what is the status. More informations. BugzillaPublisher is a publisher for CruiseControl automatic build tool. It takes modifications set comments and add the build number in the bug description. More informations. MVeloce is a technical framework used in all web based application of BuildProcess suite. MVeloce is a MVC2 framework which use Apache Jakarta Velocity for the view part. More informations. All BuildProcess tools are distributed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 and tested on Linux, Solaris, AIX and Windows.

News (top 5)

2010-01-15: New AutoDeploy Agent and Console snapshots available
To be more clear, the AutoDeploy artifacts names have changed. Now we have the AutoDeploy Agent: it's the small part installed on the target server. And the AutoDeploy Console: it's the main web application that manage the AutoDeploy configuration and interacts with the agents.
See the download section.

2009-10-13: AutoDeploy continuous integration and snapshots available
AutoDeploy is now build every night using Apache Continuum. It allows to test the integration of the latest source code and provide snapshots to you.
You can access to the continuum dashboard:
AutoDeploy Continuum
and find the snapshots on the Nanthrax maven repository:
snapshots
For now, only AutoDeploy 0.5 branch has been included in the continuous integration but the trunk will come soon.

2009-03-24: BuildProcess AutoDeploy 0.5.5 on the road
A new release of AutoDeploy (0.5 branch) is in progress. More than bugfixes, this release will include :

• communication between agents allowing environment agent to delegate actions to others
• external software workflow allowing to scramble location, system command, configuration files and SQL update

2009-03-22: Community area replaced
The previous BuildProcess community area is now replaced by several resources : support requests, forum, roadmap/feature request, mailing list, etc.

2009-03-20: BuildProcess products license changed
All BuildProcess products (including AutoDeploy) are now under the Apache License 2.0. This license change allows BuildProcess tools to be more used in enterprise or embedded inside whole plateform or other products.
You can see the Apache License 2.0 terms and conditions here.