Is it possible to configure Hudson to send build notifications to Microsoft Communicator (or Microsoft Lync) using its instant message plugin? If possible, please tell me how to do that? Thank you.
It is likely to be possible. Have a look at the existing hudson plugins, which do similar things.
If you can work out how to get Hudson to run a script once the build is complete, there's a (paid) powershell cmdlet which lets you send alerts to Microsoft Lync users.
Otherwise, you will need to find the SDK/API for Microsoft Lynq (e.g. the 2010 SDK), and write it yourself. Consider building on the existing Instant Messaging Plugin.
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I would like to create a new notification email with each checkout in EME (Enterprise Meta Environment). I have been searching the web for a valid lead but I didn't come across any blogs or article.
It depends on whether you are using GDE or you are using air commands to check out.
If you are using a air commands then its straight farward. Write a generic checkout script and add a mailx command after the air commands. Ask your team to use this generic script for all check out check-in tasks :)
This is first time i was thinking about this scenario. I have few scripts in Selenium webdriver and few script in QTP.
Using Webdriver, I have automated web based HTML5 Application via eclipse Juno
and using QTP, I have automated SAP Purchase request placing order.
Now both become depended module for me, from SAP data's are flowing to web base application.
And I'm planning to automate eclipse via QTP so that it will execute selenium script.
Can someone provide me how to proceed with situation and give me some strategy to proceed.
Thanks in advance
Raj R
Since the Eclipse UI is written in Java you should be able to automate Eclipse using QTP's Java addin.
If it is reasonable possible, I wouldn't record actions on Eclipse from QTP. Are you aware that eclipse has a rich set of runtime options? See if you can create an eclipse .ini file that starts the desired Selenium test. When it works as desired, you can start this file with the SystemUtil.Run statement in QTP.
Where can I find a list of BMC Remedy 3rd party integrations? I have found nothing on their website, and their sales department put me in touch with the customer services which wouldn't take my call because I didn't have a customer number.
My company is looking into using BMC Remedy as a customer incident system, and it would be nice if I could integrate it with some software. For example, we could have an internal development tracking system such as Jira, Redmine, MantisBT, Trak, etc. which would integrate with Remedy. Or, have Rememdy itself integrate with something like Hudson or CruiseControl.
So far, I've found nothing that seems to integrate with Remedy -- even with software packages that have a ton of integrations like Hudson and Jira. I don't really care if there are third party proprietary integrations, but I'd like to make sure they already exist and not All you have to do is hire someone at $400 to program everything for you. I want to make sure that there is something now and not be promised it can be done, then find out you really can't do it.
I may be a bit late to the party here, but I wanted to make this info available for anybody who happened to be searching for this answer in the future. BMC Remedy has an API in Java, which uses a native library in C, as well as bindings for Perl and other languages capable of calling native code. If you can integrate with any of those languages, you can write a custom integration program and integrate with that. As 'Gary L' mentioned, Remedy can also expose any form as a web service, which, in my experience, have simple interfaces.
Since the original question was asked, BMC have created a doc with a wealth of information on their Wiki. A Swedish company, RRR, has also collected every version of the Remedy Java API and required native libraries on a single page. It appear that you no longer need a support ID to access these pages and download the API files.
Hopefully somebody finds this helpful!
Your definition of "integrate" is different from their version. Their version of integration means that if a source system exposes its data, then you can configure ARS to retrieve that information and map it to classes (forms) within their system. They have a "generic" integration system that you have to customize. It has three broad areas:
If you can connect directly to a 3rd party database and see its schema, then you can perform
retrievals of that information. We use Oracle today.
They have a java API that allows you access the ARS system for custom code (I do a lot of this).
Flat CSV file importation of data from a source system into ARS (after export).
I looked at their online support for the systems you mention (Jira, Redmine, MantisBT, Trak) and do not see anything that would accomplish any of the three above without your own customizations. With the work that I've done on this system it doesn't surprise me.
I work on a project today that writes custom code doing the items above. It is a system that is configuration/development heavy for us. Your comment: "All you have to do is hire someone at $400 to program everything for you." is not too far off from what we have to do with the system.
There is another option for Remedy integration: Web Services.
BMC Remedy makes it easy to create web services (WSDL). It creates the SOAP and XML for you. When you buy Remedy Incident Management module, it includes out-of-the-box web services that will allow it to consume and/or publish web services which make it easy to integrate with other systems on the intranet or externally. There are BMC publications which provide details on ITSM integration --- but again you will need a customer/support ID to get it from BMC's website.
Yes and no to the Web Services integration. The Version 8 system I was working on had some web services available, and they were incomplete. So I was able to do a number of functions (mostly read-only), specifically for custom display and Change Request checking, and submission of a Change Request and a Work Order. But many functions had no web service, and I ended up brute-forcing through the web user interface (with a customized browser control) to change dates on tasks, or make tasks. Ugly, but effective. There are mid-tier JavaScript calls that can be used, if you know the secret function name and can deal with the dynamic naming convention in play. For Remedy users who are desperate for some integration, there are ways it can be done.
few OOTB integrations are possible with BMC Products but if you want to do it with other you have to write webservices(REST or SOAP)
Companies like IBM or cisco has made connectors for integration with Remedy.
Just adding more detail here:
I also do a ton of direct SQL for remedy integration.
If you're careful and know what you're doing, you can have a stored proc create legal/valid records in a remedy table. (If you do it wrong, the records won't load in the client and in older versions of the windows client can actually crash the client software.)
Is there any API or tool that can automate software updating? It should take care of checking for updates from a URL for a provided list of files and downloading and replacing the ones that need updating. It would also be nice if it contained an authentication module so that only authorized parties could access the updates. It should be language-agnostic - takes a list of files without extra knowledge except their versions and replaces them with newly downloaded copies if on the site there are newer versions.
I'm specifically interested in something for the Windows platform, that would run on Win Xp to Win 7.
This makes me think about apt-get ...
take a look here, as well: Is there an auto-update framework for C++/Win32/MFC (like Sparkle)?
I did see some articles a while back about embedding subversion into your application to manage version control.
Edit:
http://svnbook.red-bean.com/en/1.5/svn.developer.html
Subversion has a modular design: it's implemented as a collection of libraries written in C. Each library has a well-defined purpose and application programming interface (API), and that interface is available not only for Subversion itself to use, but for any software that wishes to embed or otherwise programmatically control Subversion. Additionally, Subversion's API is available not only to other C programs, but also to programs written in higher-level languages such as Python, Perl, Java, and Ruby."
Just saw UpdateNode launching a pretty cool update and messaging system. It seems to be cross platform and free for Open Source.
UPDATE, did some further analysis on that, posted at: https://stackoverflow.com/a/22528011/3257300
For windows, I'd use Google Update, also known as omaha.
Since you didn't tag this question as windows, I'd also mention a UpdateEngine for Mac.
And (best of all) apt, which is available for free on all Debian-based Linux and BSD distributions, like Ubuntu
There is open source project WIPT inspired by APT of Debian Linux.
Head over to Launchpad and use a PPA: it is a Debian/Ubuntu repository management platform. Of course this is not really platform independent but it is language wise :-)
You should take a look at ClickThrough, I don't know much about it but it sounds similar to what you're looking for. As for authorization, I would imagine this to be handled by your webserver based on the URL.
InstallShield has an offering. Never used it but researched it a few years back but we decided on a roll your own solution.
InstallShield Update Manager
InstallShield Update Service
You didn't state what platform you needed this for. The easiest way I can think of doing this is with subversion using rsync.
The concept is to write a post-commit hook for subversion. This script would update a "working folder" on the repository machine and then use rsync to update the differences to another machine.
Data protection and authentication would be set up using rsync over ssh.
If this is for windows, you could try doing the same with cygwin installs on the two machines.
Good luck.
If you use .NET, I'm a happy customer of AppLife Update
CRONw is a scheduled execution service for Windows. (Sorry, I can't link it, I'm apparently limited to 1 as a new user. It's hosted on Sourceforge.)
Powershell is a Windows scripting language (Microsoft-official) that allows you to do most system administration operations you could conceivably want to do. It is very easy to pick up even if you haven't worked with it before.
I would say your best bet is to write a simple update script in Powershell and, optionally, set it up as a crontask so you don't have to manually execute it.
IIRC, Powershell is an optional install on XP, and CRONw requires you be running a 32-bit system. You didn't say, so I'd guess you're doing 32-bit, but the alternative bears mentioning.
And in all this, I'm assuming that the URLs you're describing are designed for this purpose - if they're not and you don't own them, it will rapidly become more suffering than you're willing to bear. (Making a computer navigate a human-readable website usually does.)
I have a database in ms access 2007 with forms. I need to create a stand alone exe file from access. Is it possible? If so, how?
You can't save it as .exe, but you could use the Access Runtime to allow users without Access to use your Application.
If I can just add my two cents worth...
You DO have to distribute the Access runtimes with your application. I heard recently on Stackoverflow on a questions that Microsoft runtimes for access are now freely downloadable.
Here are a couple of links...
http://www.granite.ab.ca/access/developeredition2007faq.htm
http://blogs.msdn.com/clintcovington/archive/2007/01/30/the-runtime-and-developer-extensions-will-be-free.aspx
You can either distribute these runtimes with your application or you can have your customer download them.
EDIT - THE BELOW IS PROVEN FALSE. YOU DO NOT HAVE TO PURCHASE A LICENSE TO DISTRIBUTE THE RUNTIMES. Of course, they are distributed under a license but the license is free. I leave the comment below for its historical interest.
I think but am not sure that to distribute the access runtimes with your application you will have to have a license. I know that you used to get this license with an MSDN subscription and with Visual Studio Tools for Office.
END FALSEHOOD
Once you have the Access Runtimes, you can create BULLETPROOF runtime installations of Access apps using preconfigured installation scripts from SageKey.com.
Office developer tools comes with some deployment options but they are not bulletproof and I would NEVER distribute a commercial application using those...they just don't work. But the sagekey scripts absolutely ROCK. They work incredibly well.
All this presumes you want to widely distribute your app. If not (for example...you want to just deploy to your customers and you will have complete control over that) then you can use the download from Microsoft option mentioned above.
One last thing. Runtime access apps have to be VERY robust. You have to do error handling and automatic table linking very well among other things or you will spend all the time on the phone with your customers rather than selling/distributing software.
Hope this helps.
Seth
If you have the Developer version of MS Access, you can create an '.mde' file, which operates just like an .exe file as far as your user is concerned. Essentially, creating an .mde wraps a version of the MS Access run-time along with your database.
As long as you have done a decent job with your form design, the user really can't tell the difference between your .mde file and a .exe.
I haven't used the Developer version in a number of years, but if I recall, it is quite expensive. EDIT (It appears to be free these days).
Here is a link to a good FAQ on the topic. Much more up-to-date than my recollections from the past.
As far as bullet proof runtimes yes Sagekey is an answer. However another alternative is Albert Kallal's Inno script which checks to see if a version of Access is installed. If not it tells you to install a runtime version of Access. If installed then it continues to install your FE MDE and other assorted files.
http://groups.google.com/group/microsoft.public.access/msg/10e3fc9234660872?hl=en
Sample inno script which "wraps" the package wizard install into a single .exe
http://groups.google.com/group/comp.databases.ms-access/msg/4aa1b33a191bf1f8?hl=en
Deploying updates to your software in a Runtime environment for Access 2007
http://www.members.shaw.ca/AlbertKallal/RunTime/InstallExample.htm
The only scenario which it wouldn't handle well would be if the user does install Access or a different Access runtime on their system later. However if you ship your product in Access 2000 format the problems are minimized.
no it's not possible.
I don't believe it is possible. Sorry to say. You need the Access to launch and display the form.