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The CruiseControl team made a huge leap forward by releasing a quick start version of CC. (Okay, the team called it a "binary" version but I like Quick Start Edition better!) They bundled Jetty (a very cool Java servlet container) with their 2.3 release.
You can download the 2.3 binary release (found here), extract it, then start cruisecontrol.bat (or cruisecontrol.sh) to run CruiseControl on a sample project. The reporting engine is running as a part of CruiseControl. Just hit http://localhost:8080/cruisecontrol/ (after you're running CC of course) and you're viewing live build results less than a minute after your download. Not bad.
This should jump start anyone whose been thinking about trying out CruiseControl but didn't have time to come up to speed on the configuration and deployment.
A few suggestions to the CC team for future releases?
The Control Panel tab is present but isn't enabled. JMX is turned off. It should be on for the sample application to let people see what it can do.
The xsltlogpublisher (a publisher plugin) should have a sample XSL file that generates the same HTML as the JSP, eliminating the need for a servlet engine altogether. I started to tinker with that this evening but I don't know XSTL, I tend to create really ugly HTML, and realized that there are probably dozens of people who've already done this better than I ever could. I couldn't find anything on the web but I'll bet someone on the user's mailing list would submit a decent sample. Then the xsltlogpublisher can publish a nice HTML interface as it's default transform.
CruiseControl gets better every release! Thanks a lot guys!
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