Extending and Customizing AnthillPro through Plugins

Original Broadcast Date: Tues., Apr. 20, 2010 at 1:00 p.m. EDT
Speakers: Jeffrey Fredrick, Urbancode Technical Evangelist and Eric Minick, Urbancode Lead Consultant

Does your company have a custom build and release process? Shouldn't your build and release tool reflect your custom process or toolset?

With the release of AnthillPro 3.7, Urbancode introduced a new Plugin system. The Plugin system allows new AnthillPro step types, written in the scripting language of your choice (Perl, Python, Ruby, etc). In addition to allowing for new integrations for commercial, open source, or in-house tools, Plugins can be used to expand existing integrations, standardize project configuration and solve unique automation challenges. More than a dozen Plugins are available from Urbancode today including: static analysis integrations, notifications to Twitter, builds with Ruby, data publishing to Sonar, issue tracking with Rally or TeamForge, and loading property file values in AnthillPro properties.

For AnthillPro users who want a custom fit to their process, Jeffery Fredrick and Eric Minick invite you to watch this recorded presentation where they will cover:

• finding, uploading and configuring existing Plugins;
• Plugin authoring: a brief how-to on writing Plugins; as well as
• ahptool: the command line utility supporting Plugins.

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About Urbancode and AnthillPro

Urbancode is the technical leader in build and release management solutions since 2001. AnthillPro offers the only complete enterprise continuous integration platform with Build and Dependency Management, Deployment Automation, Test Orchestration, and Release Management. Customers in the financial, banking, insurance, software and high-tech industries achieve end-to-end automation using .NET, Java, and/or native technologies. Urbancode's unique products integrate with SCM, issue tracking, change management, test automation and IDE tools. Founded in 1996, Urbancode is headquartered in Cleveland, Ohio.

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Greg Wunderle
(216) 367-9900
gaw@urbancode.com