Plugin to Firefox for CruiseControl

CruiseControl is an excellent build server available here. I like to use it since it can handle most usage scenarios and since it's free. There is also a nice little plugin to Firefox here, that enables you to see status of the build server at a glance and also to execute specific commands like starting a build. The commands are sent using JMX and I've discovered a small error in the plugin that unfortunately means that it doesn't work with the latest version of CruiseControl. It's simple to fix though, so here's the fix:

Find the file cc.js that should be in a folder with a path similar to this one:

C:\Documents and Settings\mno\Application Data\Mozilla\Firefox\
Profiles\g4md1gst.default\extensions
{8C2AEDBC-6332-41c5-935D-1948541DCD56}\ chrome\cc\content\cc

Find the definition for the function ccSelectMenuProject(projectName, action). Then edit the line:

var url = this.prefs.jmxUrl+"/invoke?template=identity
&operation="+action+"&objectname=CruiseControl+
Project%3Aname%3D"+projectName;
So that it instead looks like this:

var url = this.prefs.jmxUrl+"/invoke?operation="+action+
"&objectname=CruiseControl+Project%3Aname%3D"+projectName;

Now the JMX commands execute succesfully, however the plugin still parses the output wrong and complains. This isn't critical though, maybe I'll fix that in another post.

Weblogic 9.2 running Ant and JUnit

In order to get junit working, when using command line builds with ant, just do the following:

Edit ant.bat in C:\bea\weblogic92\server\bin and add the two following lines:

set LOCALCLASSPATH=%LOCALCLASSPATH%;%ANT_HOME%\lib\ant\ant-junit.jar
set LOCALCLASSPATH=%LOCALCLASSPATH%;%ANT_HOME%\lib\ant\junit.jar

They should be inserted on line 80, right after:

set LOCALCLASSPATH=%LOCALCLASSPATH%;%ANT_HOME%\lib\ant\ant-launcher.jar