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Manually override and launch quartz jobs…

January 20, 2011 / posted in Java / No Comments

Override quartz settings?

So you have a quartz job that’s chugging along nicely until you’re hit with the reality that the job details parameters change or the job needs to be suspended, or something happens that you end up having to recompile and redeploy your application just to update the packaged quartz job properties. This is no fun. You will undoubtedly have to take the updated code through the regular qa cycle, regress test, and then ultimately redeploy your code into the production environment. Surely there must be some way to address this problem when using Jboss…

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Configure ssh authorized keys for cvs access

January 3, 2011 / posted in Technobable / No Comments

Continous Integration

Lately I’ve been working on adding Hudson as the continuous integration (CI) server for projects at work. The whole notion of CI merits an entire discussion, but suffice to say it’s a very clean, approach that helps automate the build process particularly if you run manual builds that use prompted shell scripts.

After looking at a few solutions, Hudson seemed from many accounts to be the easiest to get running, and pretty flexible when integrating into an existing build system. Add to the resume that it could run in a servlet container, divorcing…

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