Category: jenkins

Jenkins CI server

Java software engineering – reference resources

Official Java and JEE

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The official Java tutorials

The official JEE 7 tutorial

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Apache Commons

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JBoss.org

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Google Guava

Trending Java projects on github

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Glassfish

Build and test automation

Sonatype Maven books

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The SVN reference book

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Netbeans knowledge base

Vim configuration for Java coding

Minimal Debian VM upgraded to wheezy / Jenkins with OpenJDK 7

I have upgraded my minimal Debian VM to current Debian stable (“wheezy”). It comes in OVA format which is deployable to Virtualbox or VMware.

The Debian system JDK, i.e. the location of java, javac, etc. commands in the PATH, is still OpenJDK 6 because that is the default-jdk on wheezy and the Jenkins deb packages from jenkins-ci.org depend on it. In particular this means that the Tomcat / Jenkins process itself is executed by OpenJDK 6.

But my Jenkins installer now also installs OpenJDK 7 and pre-configures it as the default JDK for Jenkins jobs. That means you can now use this Jenkins instance to build your Java 7 projects, as well as older Java projects.

Please follow the step-by-step installation instructions if you want to use the VM. It consists completely of Free / Open Source software. I provide it for download “as is” without any warranty of any kind.

Jenkins on minimalistic Debian Virtualbox VM (64bit)

Update 14/Aug/2018: I no longer maintain the package mentioned and the download links below are most likely broken.

A Jenkins build server (LTS release) can now be easily installed on the minimalistic Debian VM:

  1. Download and install Virtualbox
  2. Download debian-stable-amd64-minimal.ova and import it into Virtualbox
  3. Start the “debian-stable-amd64-minimal” VM in Virtualbox
  4. If you are outside Nova Scotia, please review debian-stable-amd64-minimal.txt and adjust locale, timezone and Debian mirror based on your location
  5. Start an ssh session to localhost, port 1111 (using PuTTY, for example)
  6. Log in as user (default password is “user”)
  7. Issue “sudo install.sh jenkins” (default root password is “root”)
  8. Press enter for any questions during installation
  9. Open http://localhost:8888/ in a browser on the host OS for Jenkins web ui

You can go to “Manage Jenkins” – “Configure System” and see that JDK, Ant and Maven entries are already configured for you.

Both OpenJDK 6 and OpenJDK 7 are installed automatically for you in the VM. Please note that openjdk-6 is the Debian stable system default, while openjdk-7 is configured as the default for Jenkins build jobs.

Important: Make sure to change root and user passwords to something secure, as mentioned in debian-stable-amd64-minimal.txt.