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web-based ant front end?
Can anyone recommend a web-based front end for Ant builds? I manage a
large application with numerous batch jobs as part of the workflow. I
would like end users to be able to either schedule or initiate batch
jobs by way of a web interface. Security is something of an issue, but
something like http basic auth would be fine, as tasks are generally
idempotent and unintentional initiation would be OK.
I have looked at CruiseControl and LuntBuild (more than I need) and Ant
Pretty Build (IE only and thus less than I need). My current plan is
to rewrite Ant Pretty Build (I esp. like the fact that it it simply an
xslt that leverages client-side javascript).
My plan is to build a db-based message/queueing system for job
scheduling that exposes a rest service interface. I'll use ajax
techniques to allow the client-side javascript to schedule jobs that a
cronjob will run on the server. Thus jobs can run under cron's
permissions and I needn't allow apache privileges to run such tasks,
some/many of which do things like write to the filesystem.
Any ideas/suggestions would be appreciated. I am keen on having the ant
build.xml docs loosely coupled from the messaging system such that they
will run just fine from command line ant and will be web-ified simply by
dropping them in a particular place on the filesystem with a link to the
xslt (a la Ant Pretty Build) and it'll all just work.
Of course if such a thing or something similar exists, it'll save me
much coding....
peter keane
p.s the application is written in PHP and much of the batch scripting
has been written in Perl. I am finding Ant's declaritive syntax and
encapsulated task more practical for managing the many (100+)
scripting/backend processing tasks.
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Re: web-based ant front end?
Posted by pk...@mail.utexas.edu.
Thanks much. I have Hudson up and running and it seems to do exactly
what I need it to do (and more!).
peter keane
On Tue, Jul 24, 2007 at 03:42:54PM +0100, Peter Reilly wrote:
> I would use hudson, https://hudson.dev.java.net/
> it is fairly easy to set up.
>
> Peter
>
>
> On 7/24/07, pkeane@mail.utexas.edu <pk...@mail.utexas.edu> wrote:
> > Can anyone recommend a web-based front end for Ant builds? I manage a
> > large application with numerous batch jobs as part of the workflow. I
> > would like end users to be able to either schedule or initiate batch
> > jobs by way of a web interface. Security is something of an issue, but
> > something like http basic auth would be fine, as tasks are generally
> > idempotent and unintentional initiation would be OK.
> >
> > I have looked at CruiseControl and LuntBuild (more than I need) and Ant
> > Pretty Build (IE only and thus less than I need). My current plan is
> > to rewrite Ant Pretty Build (I esp. like the fact that it it simply an
> > xslt that leverages client-side javascript).
> >
> > My plan is to build a db-based message/queueing system for job
> > scheduling that exposes a rest service interface. I'll use ajax
> > techniques to allow the client-side javascript to schedule jobs that a
> > cronjob will run on the server. Thus jobs can run under cron's
> > permissions and I needn't allow apache privileges to run such tasks,
> > some/many of which do things like write to the filesystem.
> >
> > Any ideas/suggestions would be appreciated. I am keen on having the ant
> > build.xml docs loosely coupled from the messaging system such that they
> > will run just fine from command line ant and will be web-ified simply by
> > dropping them in a particular place on the filesystem with a link to the
> > xslt (a la Ant Pretty Build) and it'll all just work.
> >
> > Of course if such a thing or something similar exists, it'll save me
> > much coding....
> >
> > peter keane
> >
> > p.s the application is written in PHP and much of the batch scripting
> > has been written in Perl. I am finding Ant's declaritive syntax and
> > encapsulated task more practical for managing the many (100+)
> > scripting/backend processing tasks.
> >
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Re: web-based ant front end?
Posted by Peter Reilly <pe...@gmail.com>.
I would use hudson, https://hudson.dev.java.net/
it is fairly easy to set up.
Peter
On 7/24/07, pkeane@mail.utexas.edu <pk...@mail.utexas.edu> wrote:
> Can anyone recommend a web-based front end for Ant builds? I manage a
> large application with numerous batch jobs as part of the workflow. I
> would like end users to be able to either schedule or initiate batch
> jobs by way of a web interface. Security is something of an issue, but
> something like http basic auth would be fine, as tasks are generally
> idempotent and unintentional initiation would be OK.
>
> I have looked at CruiseControl and LuntBuild (more than I need) and Ant
> Pretty Build (IE only and thus less than I need). My current plan is
> to rewrite Ant Pretty Build (I esp. like the fact that it it simply an
> xslt that leverages client-side javascript).
>
> My plan is to build a db-based message/queueing system for job
> scheduling that exposes a rest service interface. I'll use ajax
> techniques to allow the client-side javascript to schedule jobs that a
> cronjob will run on the server. Thus jobs can run under cron's
> permissions and I needn't allow apache privileges to run such tasks,
> some/many of which do things like write to the filesystem.
>
> Any ideas/suggestions would be appreciated. I am keen on having the ant
> build.xml docs loosely coupled from the messaging system such that they
> will run just fine from command line ant and will be web-ified simply by
> dropping them in a particular place on the filesystem with a link to the
> xslt (a la Ant Pretty Build) and it'll all just work.
>
> Of course if such a thing or something similar exists, it'll save me
> much coding....
>
> peter keane
>
> p.s the application is written in PHP and much of the batch scripting
> has been written in Perl. I am finding Ant's declaritive syntax and
> encapsulated task more practical for managing the many (100+)
> scripting/backend processing tasks.
>
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Re: web-based ant front end?
Posted by Donald McLean <dm...@stsci.edu>.
We use (and I like very much) the TeamCity product by JetBrains. They
are the folks behind the IDEA IDE. One of my favorite things about it is
the IDE integration.
Donald McLean
[just my own personal opinion]
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Re: web-based ant front end?
Posted by Gilbert Rebhan <an...@schillbaer.de>.
Hi,
pkeane@mail.utexas.edu wrote:
> Can anyone recommend a web-based front end for Ant builds?
i have =
http://oss.wikia.com/wiki/Ant_WebUI
in my bookmarks, but i never tried it.
Regards, Gilbert
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Re: web-based ant front end?
Posted by Some user <se...@mailinator.com>.
Look into AnthillPro or AnthillOS
pkeane wrote:
>
> Can anyone recommend a web-based front end for Ant builds? I manage a
> large application with numerous batch jobs as part of the workflow. I
> would like end users to be able to either schedule or initiate batch
> jobs by way of a web interface. Security is something of an issue, but
> something like http basic auth would be fine, as tasks are generally
> idempotent and unintentional initiation would be OK.
>
> I have looked at CruiseControl and LuntBuild (more than I need) and Ant
> Pretty Build (IE only and thus less than I need). My current plan is
> to rewrite Ant Pretty Build (I esp. like the fact that it it simply an
> xslt that leverages client-side javascript).
>
> My plan is to build a db-based message/queueing system for job
> scheduling that exposes a rest service interface. I'll use ajax
> techniques to allow the client-side javascript to schedule jobs that a
> cronjob will run on the server. Thus jobs can run under cron's
> permissions and I needn't allow apache privileges to run such tasks,
> some/many of which do things like write to the filesystem.
>
> Any ideas/suggestions would be appreciated. I am keen on having the ant
> build.xml docs loosely coupled from the messaging system such that they
> will run just fine from command line ant and will be web-ified simply by
> dropping them in a particular place on the filesystem with a link to the
> xslt (a la Ant Pretty Build) and it'll all just work.
>
> Of course if such a thing or something similar exists, it'll save me
> much coding....
>
> peter keane
>
> p.s the application is written in PHP and much of the batch scripting
> has been written in Perl. I am finding Ant's declaritive syntax and
> encapsulated task more practical for managing the many (100+)
> scripting/backend processing tasks.
>
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