ALM, the CALM way
A Calm approach to Enterprise software development
Wednesday, June 17, 2009

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 SCM
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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.html
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... and we’re not the only
ones
http://wiki.community.objectware.no/display/smidigtonull/Enterprise+Maven+Infrastructure
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... and we’re not the only
ones
http://weblogs.java.net/blog/johnsmart/archive/2009/05/javaone_getting.html
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... and we’re not the only
ones
http://sonar.codehaus.org/hudson-sonar-plugin-10-to-industrialize-the-ultimate-build-system/
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... and we’re not the only
ones
http://www.sonatype.com/people/2009/06/nexus-open-source-and-hudson-on-ec2/
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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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