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As I found no better tutorial on Internet, here is a very very short how to add Google analytics to Atlassian Bamboo, it require a bit of hacking, and these kind of changes will be lost after each upgrade of Bamboo..

Edit the file webapps/ROOT/start.ftl Now put the usual code you get after creating a new analytics profile just before the </body>

   In this small post I will show you how to deploy automatically some artifacts of your build into Weblogic 10.3 by using the weblogic-maven-plugin

This plugin will support various tasks within the Weblogic 8.1 and 9.x environment. Such tasks as deploy, undeploy,clientgen,servicegen, and appc are supported as well as many others. The plugin uses exposed API's that are subject to change but have been tested in 8.1 SP 4-6 and 9.0 - 9.2 MP3. There are two versions of the plugin to support the two environments based on differences in the JDK. The 9.x version is currently being refactored to support the standard JSR supported deployment interface

Read More About Apache Maven BEA Weblogic 10.3 Remote Deployment...

I found  this time a  new way to deploy Maven artefacts using the Oracle Weblogic Ant API!

If you remember my previous post, there is many ways to deploy your war/ear to Oracle Weblogic

1. Using Oracle Weblogic development mode, a mode in which a simple copy of your files in a specific autodeploy directory trigger the update/install of these
2. Using Maven Cargo, this work only if your Oracle Weblogic container is local (see here) on the same machine, where Apache Maven is running
3. Using a very old Maven plugin (2008), local and remote container are supported, but our builds were sometimes hanging during pre integration phase for no apparent reasons.

And now using the official ANT API of Oracle, by far the MOST stable of all!

Maven for PHP uses the power of Maven for building, reporting on and creating documentations of PHP projects. It adapts the Maven build lifecycle to the PHP world while fully supporting PHP 4 and PHP 5. PHP for Maven uses PHPUnit for unit testing and doxygen for creating the api documentation.
Use a PHP library project to create a library that can be used by other PHP libraries or PHP web projects. Use a PHP web project to create a standalone web project.

So I quickly describe what I did install on my root server (OpenSuse 11.X)

• Maven 2 
• php not an issue on a linux box, zypper in php5 or apt-get  to install php
• doxygen
• phpdocumentor

My Objectives: being able to build all my Joomla! component using best agile development practices

“Specific tools and techniques such as continuous integration, automated or xUnit test, pair programming, test driven development, design patterns, domain-driven design, code refactoring and other techniques are often used to improve quality and enhance project agility.”

Continuous Integration is a software development practice where members of a team integrate their work frequently, usually each person integrates at least daily - leading to multiple integrations per day. Each integration is verified by an automated build (including test) to detect integration errors as quickly as possible. Many teams find that this approach leads to significantly reduced integration problems and allows a team to develop cohesive software more rapidly. This article is a quick overview of Continuous Integration summarizing the technique and its current usage. Martin Fowler about continuous integration

Things get clearer in my mind...I will use a set of Open Sources software to reach this ambitious goal.

Brainstorming

Maintain a Single Source Repository.

Either Subversion running locally on windows/Linux, but I will stay with www.joomlaCode.org at the beginning

Automate the Build

• I am currently evaluation Maven for PHP but already have ANT script to build components and plugin for Joomla 1.5 (they are not generic enough at the moment)

Make Your Build Self-Testing

• PHP UNIT tests if available with be run at this stage using PHP command line.
• Selenium to automate components testing across many platforms, as it runs in many browsers and operating systems, and can be controlled by many programming languages and testing frameworks.
• Some standard utilities to perform standard Joomla! processes: login, logout for Apache ANT or Selenium
• I will develop either a ANT plugin or a set of Selenium test cases for deploying and removing
  • component: install, publish, remove
  • plugin: install, publish, remove
• All these utilities will be available under GPL v3 and as such free to reuse, and improve.

Everyone Commits Every Day

• This is reserved to developer having a www.joomlaCode.org account and part of the development team.

Every Commit Should Build the Mainline on an Integration Machine

I will use TeamCity continuous build server as it is free for personal use (limited to 20 concurrent build), run on Windows and Linux but require a java VM to run (may not be wanted in a PHP environment). Anyway with ANT, it will be possible to use another build server like Cruise Control or PHP Under Control.

Keep the Build Fast

That is an objective :-)

Test in a Clone of the Production Environment

Joomla! Build farm

• I can imagine a set of Joomla instances, ideally 5 of each version, aka Joomla! 1.5.3 to Joomla! 1.5.8 and Joomla! 1.0.10 to 1.0.15
• Joomla instances will be recreated at build time (files and databases), that mean Joomla! will get newly installed and removed in case of successful build
• All Joomla! instances will be running with XAMPP, ideally on port not available to the outside world for security reasons

Make it Easy for Anyone to Get the Latest Executable

Successful build (Artifacts) are only available if build is successful. Team City provide this with less effort (configuration)

Everyone can see what's happening

• A guest account will be available or a free public area with limited access to see the result of builds.
• RSS feeds, emails and Instant messaging (Jabber) out of the box for end users or developers!

Automate Deployment

That will be, auto publish to some demo site in a configurable way. At the moment, at http://demo.waltercedric.com and http://demo2.waltercedric.com for me :-)

Final words

• I will provide a ready to use package for Windows and Linux and all scripts, so anybody will be able to run it also on your own.
• Critical part will be documented in my WIKI at http://wiki.waltercedric.com direct link HERE

It seem that nobody is providing such a package as I am after only one day at the top of search results in Google "continuous build joomla"