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Installing WebObjects and Wonder for Jenkins using WOJenkins

Last modified by Bastian Triller on 2013/05/21 17:19

WOJenkins

The easiest way to get started with using Jenkins to build your WebObjects projects is to make use of WOJenkins. WOJenkins is a set of shell scripts and Jenkins job configurations that should fit most WebObjects projects out-of-the-box, but they can also be modified to fit specific needs.

Warning

Prerequisites

To make use of WOJenkins, you will need all of the following:

  1. A running Jenkins server. Ideally setup and configured using the Installing and Configuring Jenkins instructions.
  2. Git SCM installed on the Jenkins server.
  3. The Jenkins Git Plugin installed
  4. The Jenkins Multiple SCMs Plugin installed

Installing WebObjects and Project Wonder Frameworks

Before you can build your framework or application you will need to have WebObjects, Project Wonder and woproject.jar installed on your Jenkins server. The WOJenkins scripts and job configurations depend upon all three of them being installed in the JENKINS_HOME/WOFrameworksRepository directory.

The quickest way to install everything you need is by using WOJenkins itself! Specifically, by using the WOJenkins InstallWOAndWOnder job configuration.

  1. Change directories into JENKINS_HOME/jobs 
  2. cd /Users/Shared/Jenkins/Home/jobs/Clone job configuration from github.com repository 
  3. sudo git clone https://github.com/avendasora/WOJenkins_Job_InstallWOAndWOnder.git Install_WebObjects_And_WonderSet correct ownership and permissions - If you used the Mac OSX Jenkins installer, the user and group that it will be using are both "jenkins" 
  4. sudo chown -R jenkins:jenkins Install_WebObjects_And_WonderOpen Jenkins and tell it to reload the configuration files so it will see the new job.
    • From within Jenkins user interface, navigate to: Jenkins -> Manage Jenkins -> Reload Configuration from Disk
    • Call the reload URL: http://localhost:8080/reload - this link should work for a default install if you haven't turned on any security.
  5. Open the new Job.
     You should see a new job called Install_WebObjects_And_Wonder. You'll see the following options:
    1. The version of WebObjects to be downloaded from Apple and installed in JENKINS_HOME/WOFrameworksRepository/WebObjects
    2. The branch of Project WOnder that should be built after cloning the Project Wonder github repository.
    3. The build target for wonder that should be run. Usually you'll want the default of just the frameworks. 
Warning
This job may take a long time to run the first time

Depending upon the speed of your internet connection, this job may take a long time to complete (several minutes to several hours or more) the first time it is run since it downloads the WebObjects installer from Apple, and clones the entire Project Wonder Git repository (including all the commit history back to the beginning of time). Subsequent runs should be much faster as the job will not download or install WebObjects again and only new commits will be pulled from the Project Wonder Git repository.

Troubleshooting WebObjects & Wonder Install
  • If you get the following error: /var/folders/zz/zyxvpxvq6csfxvn_n0000004000001/T/hudson6582791585070315951.sh: line 2: /Users/Shared/Jenkins/Home/jobs/InstallWOAndWOnder/workspace/WOJenkins/Install/WebObjects/installWebObjects.sh/Users/Shared/Jenkins/Home/jobs/InstallWOAndWOnder/workspace/WOJenkins/Build/Wonder/WorkspaceSetupScripts/Git/setupWonderWorkspace.sh: Not a directory
    Build step 'Execute shell' marked build as failure
    Finished: FAILURE     Check the Execute Shell Script task in the Build section of the job configuration in Jenkins to make sure the carriage return was not stripped from between the two scripts when it was imported into Jenkins. The task should look like exactly like this (with two commands, each one on its own line): 
  • ${WORKSPACE}/WOJenkins/Install/WebObjects/installWebObjects.sh
    ${WORKSPACE}/WOJenkins/Build/Wonder/WorkspaceSetupScripts/Git/setupWonderWorkspace.sh    If you did not have the Multi SCM plugin installed Jenkins will break the job by removing the tasks to clone WOJenkins and Project WOnder. To fix it:
    1. Install the plugins under Jenkins -> Manage Jenkins -> Manage Plugins.
    2. Revert the changes made to the config.xml file by Jenkins by calling git reset --hard HEAD in the job directory
    3. Tell Jenkins to Reload Configuration from Disk as shown above.