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We are a Java shop looking for a CI tool to use. Both Hudson and Teamcity seem to be free but Teamcity seems slicker and with more support.
I was wondering why one would still use Hudson and if anyone could provide any argument for/against either?
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Hudson is a discontinued continuous integration (CI) tool written in Java, which runs in a servlet container such as Apache Tomcat or the GlassFish application server.
JetBrains TeamCity is a user-friendly continuous integration (CI) server for developers and build engineers free of charge with the Professional Server License and easy to set up!
Contents. Jenkins is an open source continuous integration tool, while TeamCity is a proprietary offering from JetBrains. TeamCity is easier to configure and more straightforward to use, while Jenkins has a rich plugin ecosystem and integrations.
TeamCity is a CI server written in Java. It allows developers to integrate, code, and is easier to configure with simple steps. On TeamCity parallel builds run simultaneously on different platforms and environments.
Team City is by far and away the best CI server out there. Its killer feature for me is the tight integration with IDEs (IntelliJ, Eclipse and VisualStudio). It can show you, for example, when a file you're editing in the IDE becomes out of date, who changed it and what they changed. You can commit from the IDE to the CI server, run the comile and tests on the build grid, and then the CI server will commit if the build is successful. You can click on build reports in the CI web app and it will open the appropriate files in the IDE.
There are plugins available (I wrote one: http://team-piazza.googlecode.com), but not many.
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+1 for Hudson.
Hudson is a very active project, has a wide community of users and an active users mailing list, is really easy to start with, is easy to use, has been used on huge, very huge, projects (JBoss, JAX-WS, etc) and thus has proven records of success, offers very nice advanced features (e.g. build matrix, build clustering, etc), is open source, has a lot of plugins...
And if support is really an important thing, you can get commercial support from Sun. But FWIW, I never faced any blocking problem with Hudson.
Update: As you may know, Kohsuke Kawaguchi (the creator of Hudson) has left Sun/Oracle and started his own company to take Hudson to the next stage. In other words, this is not a threat for Hudson. And if you are looking for support, you can get a certified version of Hudson CI Server as part of a subscription plan (this certified version bundles a high quality release of Hudson with a predefined set of plugins plus some commercial one).
Update: To illustrate the size of their respective user base, here is a comparison of job trends for several CI tools on Indeed (live query):
This is of course not a technical indicator.
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