I would use hudson, https://hudson.dev.java.net/ it is fairly easy to set up.
Peter On 7/24/07, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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