Sharing build artifacts between jobs in Hudson

Question

I\'m trying to set up our build process in hudson.

Job 1 will be a super fast (hopefully) continuous integration build job that will be built frequently.

Job

Answer 1

Hudson doesn't appear to have a built in repository for build artifacts. Our solution was to create one.

We are in a Windosw environment so I created a share that could be accessed by all Hudson servers (we give the relevant services a common account as the system account cannot access resources across a network).

Within our build scripts (ant), we have tasks that copy resources build from other jobs to the local workspace and jobs that generate artifacts copy them into the common repository.

In other environments, you could publish and fetch via FTP or any other mechanism for moving files.

Simplistic examples of publish and get tasks:

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