Choosing between Hudson and CruiseControl for the long term

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My purpose is to chose between CruiseControl and Hudson as continuous integration tool for java desktop application. I have seen lots of reading comparing Hudson and CruiseControl. In terms of features and ease of use, Hudson seems the best.

But in terms of robustness, reliability with heavy configuration and finally in the long term, is this still true ?

Alonzoaloof answered 4/6, 2009 at 8:18 Comment(4)

You didn't ask for it, but did you try TeamCity? I love it ;) – Fraction 4/6, 2009 at 8:20

This question deals with CruiseControl and Hudson. Although not totally out of scope, I will not accept or even increase answers dealing with some other tool. – Alonzoaloof 4/6, 2009 at 8:46

Duplicate: stackoverflow.com/questions/604385 – Glaucescent 4/6, 2009 at 9:0

Actually read that post, but found only one element of answer. Would have liked some more advises on that topic. – Alonzoaloof 4/6, 2009 at 9:13

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My vote goes to Hudson.

robustness: I have never seen Hudson crash, although minor bugs did surface between releases but were squashed impressively fast. Also, it's being used by Netbeans, JBoss, Eclipse, Apache - I'd say it's pretty robust to handle those workloads;
reliability with heavy configuration: I'm not sure what you mean here. It is extremely configurable;
in the long term: there is a strong community behind Hudson, the lead committer quotes 120 developers contributing to the codebase,

I'd say go for Hudson and never look back.

Turanian answered 4/6, 2009 at 9:40 Comment(5)

Thanks for your advise. Regarding reliability, my concern is that I just tried few builds with a single project. I just wonder if it well supports complex environment with many projects, many configurations, etc... finally the real world. – Alonzoaloof 4/6, 2009 at 11:44

I assume that the links to Hudson servers which I posted are indeed 'the real world'. Also wiki.hudson-ci.org/display/HUDSON/Meet+Hudson has case studies. – Turanian 4/6, 2009 at 12:3

Hudson used to fall over if it was thrashed too hard running on tomcat, I moved it to a stronger box and had no more problems. – Weinhardt 17/6, 2009 at 17:59

Also you can't underestimate the advnatages of the hudson plugin architecture. – Weinhardt 17/6, 2009 at 18:0

I implemented CruiseControl for our organization but it was a royal pain for configuration. I switched us over to Hudson and we haven't looked back. Much easier to configure and more options as far as I can tell. – Dominic 15/7, 2009 at 19:12

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We were using CruiseControl to build our libraries and applications. We were using it for C++ and Python development, not Java. Recently we switched to Hudson with very good results. The main features we liked were:

Stop a process
Use slaves, that is, in one place we can manage the build of multiple platforms
Easy plugins download, installation and usage.

Underneath answered 9/12, 2009 at 12:32 Comment(0)

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We started using CruseiControl two years ago. It was a lot of pain getting it started, and every change was painful. We then switched to Hudson. And I'm in love :-)

Really nice user interface, you get help directly when you need it
Easy to setup and configure
Plugins! I just love them. Just look at PromoteBuild. Try to do that easily in Cruisecontrol.
Large and active user community

Duumvirate answered 1/7, 2009 at 14:11 Comment(0)

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Asked myself the same question a couple of years ago and after reading reviews, comparing , etc I went for Hudson.

It was easy to configure, had no problem after several years, had only 4-5 projects configured so I'm not sure if this qualifies as "heavy configuration" as you're stating, but it worked smoothly for me.

Maecenas answered 4/6, 2009 at 9:6 Comment(0)

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I recently faced this same decision. I started installing both CruiseControl.NET and Hudson and would tinker with one, then the other. Pretty soon, though, I gained momentum with Hudson. We're now solidly using Hudson and I've not touched CruiseControl.NET any further (not that I was that far into it anyways). So I can attest that Hudson can be setup in a .NET world just fine.

Adjustment answered 15/7, 2009 at 19:8 Comment(0)

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I have been using Hudson for quite a while and am happy with it. I havent used Teamcity though.

If cost is a concern, then Hudson should be an obvious choice. The community contributions are very healthy.

Imidazole answered 4/6, 2009 at 8:38 Comment(0)

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I'd recommend to have a look at TeamCity too. We changed from CruiseControl to TeamCity and there are a lot of new and useful features like cancelling a build etc.

Cabotage answered 4/6, 2009 at 8:22 Comment(3)

Interesting product, unfortunately not an open source tool and no support of plugins :-/ – Alonzoaloof 4/6, 2009 at 8:29

You can add plugins to team-city. jetbrains.net/confluence/display/TW/TeamCity+Plugins – Jujitsu 15/7, 2009 at 19:26

This is pretty irrelevant to the original question, isn't it? – Plumlee 16/7, 2009 at 16:56

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