project version from maven to sonar using hudson

Question

i am using maven2 , hudson and sonar while doing sonar analysis - i would like some way to append the Hudson build# to the maven version of the project

The project

Answer 1

This is not really a Sonar issue. It's Maven project versioning.

Snaphots are designed to be dynamic. You'll discover under the hood that Maven is saving time-stamped versions in your Maven repository (I don't know how these time-stamps could be passed onto Sonar, which perhaps is what you'd like). Snapshot builds are ideal for CI jobs. software that is never used by non-developers.

What's I'd recommend is either stop using snapshots (build a "release" each time), or just accept the fact that there are two kinds of build in Maven. My rule is that if the code is being used by others then it's no longer a snapshot and should be treated as a release. This creates challenges for emerging methodologies like continuous deployment..... If every build goes to production (or production copy) then snapshots become irrelevant.

Building a release everytime is not that bad. First of all naming convention, I'd recommend:

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The Maven's release plugin will automate most of the pain in managing the details of the release (updating the POM, tagging your SCM system). Finally there is also a useful M2_Release plugin that enables you to trigger a release from Hudson GUI.