Getting Subversion Revision in Ant – Part II

We have previously discussed getting the subversion revision number from an ant script.  While the previous method relied on antcontrib and regexes, I’ve recently come across the SvnAnt project.

SvnAnt is a contribution for ant, which allows for access to svn functionality from within your ant scripts.  Several of the svn operations are available, and are documented here.  Personally, I think that your build system shouldn’t be mucking around with your source control system, though it is useful to use the subversion revision number as part of your build numbering system.

<target name="find_revision" description="Sets property 'svn.info.lastRev' to head svn revision">
<path id="svnant.libs.path>
		<fileset dir="libs">
			<include name="svnant.jar"/>
			<include name="svnClientAdapter.jar"/>
		</fileset>
	</path>

	<!-- Load SvnAnt -->
	<typedef resource="org/tigris/subversion/svnant/svnantlib.xml" classpathref="svnant.libs.path" />    

	<!-- find head revision number, amongst other things. -->
	<!-- Replace svn_username and svn_password with values appropriate to your system -->
	<svn username="svn_username" password="svn_password" javahl="false">
		<info target="." />
	</svn>

	<!-- Display svn revision number -->
	<echo>Revision found: ${svn.info.lastRev}</echo>
</target>

Adapting ITIL to Distributed Web Applications

Introduction to ITIL

The Information Technology Infrastructure Library version 1 (ITIL) was initially published by the Office of Government Commerce in the year 2000. ITIL is a broad framework of best practices which enterprises are using to manage their IT operations. This quickly grew to over 30 volumes within the library, so when ITIL version 2 came to be released a concerted effort to consolidate the processes described into logical sets was attempted. ITIL v3 continues in this vein by consolidating into five core titles:

• Service Strategy
• Service Design
• Service Transition
• Service Operation
• Continual Service Improvement.