Software Build and Release Specialist

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Jun 29

No ‘Plugin-Class’ entry in the manifest of ….hpi

If you ever wanted to evaluate Hudson CI tool, and ran into a problem while loading any plugin and you get the following error messages: No ‘Plugin-Class’ entry in the manifest of …/path/to/plugin.hpi Then you’re experiencing a problem I just experienced. The problem lies in the particular version of the hudson.war file. Like me, you [...]

Feb 11

How to Escape {“‘<>&} Characters in ANT

How exactly do you escape special characters from ANT?  Say if you need to add extra ” quotation characters within a property which already has a set of quotes? Here’s how to do it — use XML Character entity references: For > use &gt; For < use  &lt; For “ use &quot; For & use [...]

May 17

CruiseControl 2.7 Error: atusReportTask- Failed to reach dashboard instance

Are you using CruiseControl 2.7? Have you inspected the CC log lately? Seeing this error message? atusReportTask- Failed to reach dashboard instance : http://mydomain.com:8080/dashboard/buildloop/listener, either the dashboard has not started up or there is a network problem Recently I’ve been experiencing some build wlappc jspc freezing issue which I’ve fixed and works fine when I [...]