Hudson plugins and integrations

One of the strengths of Hudson is its flexibility to extend itself using plugins. There are many useful Eclipse and community-supported plugins that extend Hudson's basic functionality. We can also extend Hudson's functionality ourselves by writing our own plugin.

Hudson integrates with many existing development, testing, and build tools commonly used by IT organizations. This integration allows developers and testers to work with the tools that they are familiar with and also to utilize the additional capabilities that Hudson provides. Some of the tools Hudson integrates with are: Git, SVN, CVS, Ant, Maven, Gradle, JUnit, TestNG, Selenium, Checkstyle, PMD, and FindBugs.

Hudson also provides a RESTful API to allow other systems access to its functionality. The API can be used for functions, such as retrieving Hudson results, triggering a new build, or creating a new job.