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Extending Jenkins

You're reading from   Extending Jenkins Get a complete walkthrough of the many interfaces available in Jenkins with the help of real-world examples to take you to the next level with Jenkins

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Product type Paperback
Published in Dec 2015
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ISBN-13 9781785284243
Length 152 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Donald Simpson Donald Simpson
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Table of Contents (11) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Preparatory Steps FREE CHAPTER 2. Automating the Jenkins UI 3. Jenkins and the IDE 4. The API and the CLI 5. Extension Points 6. Developing Your Own Jenkins Plugin 7. Extending Jenkins Plugins 8. Testing and Debugging Jenkins Plugins 9. Putting Things Together Index

Jelly and Jenkins


The config.jelly configuration file is a simple Jelly template. You can find out more about Jelly in Jenkins in the following link:

https://wiki.jenkins-ci.org/display/JENKINS/Basic+guide+to+Jelly+usage+in+Jenkins

You can read more about Jelly, in general, here at http://commons.apache.org/proper/commons-jelly/. This article states the following:

Jelly is a Java and XML based scripting and processing engine.

The main purpose of Jelly in this context is to provide developers with a highly flexible tag library through which they can quickly and easily create and handle UI view changes.

From a developer point of view, Jelly files interact with Java code to get and set declared values at runtime and presents them to the user via the UI.

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