What is Jenkin and Purpose/Features?

Jenkins, formerly known as Hudson, is a quick to use continuous integration system, which can be used to automate the build of your project at a scheduled time or when a trigger is raised.

   Purpose /Features

• Perform a software build with Apache Maven, ANT etc.
• Run a shell script
• Archive the build result
• Generate report from code quality report generated by PMD, FindBug and Cobertura tools.
• Run Integration tests
• Send the build status report in email
• Create Build Job for DEV,QA,Stage,Pre-Prod,Prod Environments
• Checkout the code from Version Control Repository(CSV/SVN/GIT) and Run the ANT/Maven Script Generate the war and Deploy the war in WEB/Application Server using maven plugin or shell script and Restart the server using shell script and send the status of build to configured emails   example: Build was successfully or Build has Compilation error  etc.