Is there any way by which we can automate the build part as we don't want GUI part, As we want to integrate build part(generate .exe part) to our CI/CD tools like Jenkins. Any suggestion by which we can accomplish headless build either thru Bat file or wrapper by using Jars.
Many Thanks in Advance
install4j has a command line compiler and integrations for Gradle, maven and ant.
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I'm finding it difficult to phrase this question well, as there are quite a few generic terms (run, configuration, launch, etc.). Here goes:
You can save run configurations in a .launch file. (in the Run Configuration Dialog, under the Common tab, Save as a shared file.
We check these in to SVN. The developers can pass them around, and it helps getting new devs running a working application quicker.
I'd like to check these out as part of our build and use them to programatically run the application, the tests, etc, without spinning up the whole IDE.
What would be the best way to run a .launch file outside of the UI?
Edit: I am trying to unify the tests run on the build server and the IDE. I do not
particularly want to give up integrated debugging, which would be the case with an ant script to run the tests .
This is probably more a problem for integration testing with multiple bundles, or unit testing a whole bundle, where you'd like to mock up extensions.
there is an eclipse plugin built over JUnit, called TPTP. It provides an automation client which can be used to launch the test from eclipse with no gui. maybe it helps
Ant4Eclipse may provide a good starting point on how to do this.
Unfortunately, this is limited to Java Applications and JUnit configurations; I am more interested in PDE applications and Plugin JUnit tests.
I have recently had alot of success building an Eclipse RCP app inside a Hudson CI server using Eclipse Buckminster. It took a bit of doing, but once I setup both features, made my RCP product be based on features, and added the Buckminster query files and the like, it worked. There is a Hudson/Jenkins Buckminster plugin that allowed me to have hudson build the application.
After saving the launch configurations for each test fragment, I created hudson commands to invoke them (yes one line per test fragment unfortunately), but after that I got the automated CI build that I wanted.
You could also use the shell command Eclipse uses. To get it:
Run your program in Eclipse
Go to the "Debug" view
Right-click on the process (probably the second item in the tree) and select "Properties"
Copy shell command and delete the agentlib flag to run in bash
I think you don't need to use the .launch configurations to run the tests. If you build an application using the Eclipse Build System, then you can use the AntRunner application from Eclipse to run your units tests. This doesn't start the whole IDE.
This article describes how to run the tests during your build process. With this process, you use a special "Test" Eclipse and load the plugins you want to test.
Perhaps running the configurations the way you would run your own custom run configurations would help here. It is described in this article.
I'm very new for Appium. I have configured all my Win-7(64 bit) machine using this blog i.e Appium for windows, node.js and Android SDK with API level 17, emulator etc.
I found many java files on git-hub also in this blog also
but How to run this java files I don't have idea.
If anybody guide me step wise will be very helpful.
Thanks.
You can run the java test file using following command:
mvn -Dtest=com.saucelabs.appium.SimpleTest test
Note: You need to open terminal -> navigate to project directory --> execute the above command.
Refer to this link: Run Java Test File
For command line execution you can integrate your automation test with build tools.
Like Ant, Maven, Gradle. it can help you to execute and build automation test, also you can easily integrate with CI tools with the help of these.
I'm currently working on a project on Java Applet, Frames and now i have to deploy it. But the problem is this how can i hide the source code of the project? I've to deploy it to a local user on Windows OS. How can i make the .exe of the code?
There are many options you have.
If you just want to wrap the Java code in an executable file that works in Windows. You have:
Launch4j
JSmooth
Both are good.
If you want to wrap as a service so that you can perform myapp.bat {install|start|stop}, you have
Java Service Wrapper
If you just want to have a couple of bat/shell scripts auto generated at the build time that will launch your app on double clicking. You may look into Maven, there is a good Maven plugin called AppAssembler
Maven AppAssembler Plugin
The best tool for building .exe is InstallJammer
It also provides wizard type installation with all options.
If no ant or other build tool, can eclipse itself handle large project?
While eclipse can handle large projects, it is in most cases necessary to use an IDE-independant build tool, like ant or maven:
should be able to produce deployable artifact with one command
should not be tied to a particular IDE. Team members may choose different IDEs
should be usable from command line and continuous integration tools
Without a build tool you lose:
reproducability: Builds from your machine will likely look different from you coworkers. You might have a different plugin installed, a different JDK configured ... a build tool will minimize these dependencies.
continuous integration: No way to do that without a build too.
IDE independence. What if somebody wants to use Netbeans or IDEA because it would help tremendously with the next task?
I'm using Netbeans for my Java development, and every time I download a project that has been developed using other IDE, I can't run the project because of errors.
Is there any way to open regular people's projects easily without headache.
Note : the project am trying to open is not an Eclipse project, so I can't use the Eclipse importer.
And usually what are Java developers using for development?
Most Java developers are split between Eclipse , IntelliJ Idea and NetBeans. NetBeans is capable of opening Eclipse projects and Idea can export to Eclipse. So this should solve most problems.
Another way is to check if you project is using Maven or a similar model. Generally there are plugins for Netbeans that can handle import from this sort of sources.
I've had some luck using File > New Project… > Java > Java Project with Existing Sources, which "Imports an existing Java application into a standard IDE project. The Java application can have multiple source folders. Standard projects use an IDE-generated Ant build script to build, run, and debug your project." Conveniently, the generated script includes targets that can be overridden to alter the build process, as seen here.
We have several projects with existing ant build scripts and all I want is to have NetBeans as my code editor ...so far.
We aim for that the projects are independent of IDE as we have been used to just use emacs and ant for coding/building, which means that independant on platform you should be able to checkout the code and just build it no matter if it is within an IDE or just a shell/"DOS prompt". If you have projects like that use the "Java Free-Form project" and add all jars that you have defined in build script to also be included in Netbeans CLASSPATH.
This type of project will use your ant scripts for everything and will still work even if someone in your project prefer to use other coding environment.
Hope this can help