ALM, the CALM wayA Calm approach to Enterprise software development

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What is ALM

Application lifecycle management (ALM) is the marriage of business management to software engineering made possible by tools that facilitate and integrate requirements management, architecture, coding, testing, tracking, and release management.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Application_lifecycle_management

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ALM Best Practices

Manage your Code Repository (SCM checkout/tagging/checkin)

Manage your Artifact creation process

Manage Artifact versions

Deploy Artifacts

DTAP Street

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Processes and Roles

the less processes, the better

the more automatized processes, the better

a process must be owned by someone

a process must be monitored

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Why Maven

Concept of Lifecycle

Inheritance and property overriding

Widely spread

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ALM + Maven = Calm

Contains process-oriented behaviors

Separation of Concerns

Just a Corporate POM (or its parent)...

... but OpenSource

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Calm Features

Maven Enforcer Plugin (checks Maven and JDK version)

Maven Site Plugin for documentation

Maven Cargo Plugin for remote WAR deployment

Maven Deploy Plugin + Nexus as a central Repository

Maven Selenium/Surefire Plugin for testing

Maven Release Plugin for SCMWednesday, June 17, 2009

Infrastructure Ready

http://juddsolutions.blogspot.com/2009/05/ultimate-enterprise-java-build-system.html

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... and we’re not the only ones

http://juddsolutions.blogspot.com/2009/05/ultimate-enterprise-java-build-system.htmlWednesday, June 17, 2009

http://wiki.community.objectware.no/display/smidigtonull/Enterprise+Maven+Infrastructure

... and we’re not the only ones

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http://weblogs.java.net/blog/johnsmart/archive/2009/05/javaone_getting.html

... and we’re not the only ones

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http://sonar.codehaus.org/hudson-sonar-plugin-10-to-industrialize-the-ultimate-build-system/

... and we’re not the only ones

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http://www.sonatype.com/people/2009/06/nexus-open-source-and-hudson-on-ec2/

... and we’re not the only ones

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Give it a try!<parent>

<groupId>com.sourcesense.maven</groupId><artifactId>maven-calm</artifactId><version>1.0-beta-5</version>

</parent>

...

<repositories>...<repository>

<id>sose-public</id><url>http://repository.sourcesense.com/nexus/content/groups/public</url>

</repository></repositories>

...

<scm><connection>${maven.release.connection}</connection><developerConnection>${maven.release.developerConnection}</developerConnection><url>${maven.release.url}</url>

</scm>

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Customize your properties

<!-- The most common properties that you might want to override -->

<!-- Enforcer Defaults --><maven.version>2.0.6</maven.version><java.version>1.5.0</java.version>

<!-- Dev Environment Defaults --><java.compiler.version>1.5</java.compiler.version><application.properties.location>src/main/properties/${env}</application.properties.location><application.properties.filename>application.properties</application.properties.filename><eclipse.downloadSources>true</eclipse.downloadSources><env>local</env>

<!-- Maven Release Plugin Defaults --><maven.release.goals>install deploy</maven.release.goals><maven.release.scm.provider>svn</maven.release.scm.provider><maven.release.scm.url>http://my.code.repo</maven.release.scm.url><maven.release.multimodule>true</maven.release.multimodule><maven.release.arguments></maven.release.arguments>

<!-- Maven Deploy Plugin Defaults --><maven.deploy.repository.id>maven-repo</maven.deploy.repository.id><maven.deploy.repository.url>http://localhost/your/repo</maven.deploy.repository.url>

<!-- Maven Site Plugin Defaults --><maven.site.id>maven-site</maven.site.id><maven.site.url>scp://localhost/var/www/${project.build.finalName}</maven.site.url>

<!-- Selenium Defaults --><selenium.browser>*firefox</selenium.browser><selenium.server.port>4444</selenium.server.port>

<!-- Plugin Versions Defaults --><plugin.selenium.version>1.0-rc-2-SNAPSHOT</plugin.selenium.version><plugin.cargo.version>1.0.1-SNAPSHOT</plugin.cargo.version>

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References

http://www.sourcesense.nl/process/alm.html

http://code.google.com/p/maven-calm/

http://maven-calm.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/pom.xml

http://maven-calm.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/README.txt

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