Integration

Atlassian has added a continuous integration service as a new feature to their GitHub Cloud product. It’s called GitHub Pipelines and it is similar to Travis CI for GitHub offering a nice integration for continuous integration/delivery pipelines for projects hosted on GitHub. It’s still in the beta phase and requires a sign-up but nevertheless I’d like to demonstrate the current state of this service and how easy it is to add scripted pipelines to a project. ...

HipChat is Atlassian’s alternative to Slack and its solution to team collaboration chats. Atlassian Connect offers developer tools to bootstrap applications, connect to Atlassian’s cloud products with easy and in combination with HipChat’s REST APIs allows us to write integrations for such a chat server in no time. In the following tutorial I’d like to show how to write an integration within a few steps using Atlassian Connect, Node.js and Express and how to connect the integration to a HipChat server. ...

We are all waiting for a stable release of Maven3 with following updates .. faster, more performant .. save us time building our software and some precious memory ;) improved artifact resolution api and plugin api better osgi integration a few bugfixes no mixing of application dependencies and tooling dependencies though it does not matter that much to me: polyglot features .. e.g.: “Writing your pom files in Groovy” version-less parent elements for multi-module or multi-pom projects, no need to define the parent version in every submodule better artifact resolution, which dependency or pom supplied which artifact to the outcome .. got that information from: “Splitter from the world of Java” ...