Macon Pegram

May 09 2011

Hudson or Jenkins? It doesn't matter!

The IT industry loves a good "Holy War". One of the latest has been the highly visible and at times down right nasty forking of the Hudson Continuous Integration server into the Jenkins Continuous Integration Server.  More recently Oracle has announced an intention to release Hudson to the Eclipse Foundation, raising some interesting questions about whether all of this could have been avoided in the first place.  

With the situation changing so rapidly, how does a development team, or company make the right choice?  After following the evolution of both of these servers, I can safely say that it doesn't matter.

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Mar 10 2010

Winstone: The Smaller, Faster, Lighter Servlet Container

A few years ago Bruce Tate and Justin Gehtland wrote a book entitled Better, Faster, Lighter Java.  In this book they argue that sometimes a simpler solution is the right answer.   As developers we often become attached to our "Golden Hammer" and try to use it for every purpose.  Large Java EE containers such as Weblogic, JBoss and WebSphere have a place in our toolbox, but sometimes what you need is a simple container which starts quickly and has a small footprint. 

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