[clue-tech] Eclipse: What are people using it for

[Angelo Bertolli]

David L. Anselmi wrote:
> Sean LeBlanc wrote:
> [...]
>> I should actually use a more correct term - although the option in 
>> Eclipse
>> is called "build automatically" and checked off by default, it really 
>> just
>> compiles.
>>
>> For trying to solve the issues you describe, I like continuous 
>> integration
>> using CruiseControl, Ant, Junit, & DBUnit (if a db is involved), and 
>> PMD and
>> CheckStyle and FindBugs.
>
> Thanks! It's cool that your group understands how to do that.  Where I 
> used to work was Java and I left right before they picked up ant.  But 
> continuous integration wasn't really done back then.  My current 
> system is a disaster so I won't talk about it.
>
> Anyone know any good papers on how to implement continuous 
> integration?  We have C, C++, Java, and a sprinkling of many other 
> things so Java centric doesn't help much.
>
> Anyone use things like Clear Case's build integration stuff (Clear 
> Make is it?)  The add-on stuff where the version control system can 
> build (and version) the binaries?  Can anyone articulate why that's so 
> great?  (I've read the advertising but not understood it.)  There's an 
> Open Source system called Vesta that seems to do the same. 
> http://www.vestasys.org/
I took a look, but it was unclear to me.  I would like to know if 
there's something like cruisecontrol for non-java development.  
Cruisecontrol is probably the most useful development tool after SCM, 
but unfortuately it wasn't made generic enough.

Angelo