Integrating Maven, Ant, Gradle, and NPM with Jenkins: Prerequisites, Installation, and Common Commands

1. Integrate Maven

1.1 Prerequisites

JDK: Maven 3.3+ requires JDK 1.7+; no minimum memory requirement.

Disk: at least 1 GB free space; OS: no restrictions.

Download Maven from the official site.

1.2 Install Maven

tar zxf apache-maven-3.6.0-bin.tar.gz -C /usr/local/
# Set global variables (/etc/profile)
export MAVEN_HOME=/usr/local/apache-maven-3.6.0
export PATH=$PATH:$MAVEN_HOME/bin
source /etc/profile

1.3 Jenkins configuration for Maven

System Settings → Global Tool Configuration

Create a Jenkinsfile

node {
    stage ("build"){
        mavenHome = tool 'M3'
        sh "${mavenHome}/bin/mvn -v"
    }
}

Build test Maven integration with Jenkins is now complete.

1.4 Common Maven commands

clean install -DskipTests
clean package

2. Integrate Ant

2.1 Prerequisites

Download Ant from the official site.

Download

2.2 Install Ant

tar zxf apache-ant-1.10.5-bin.tar.gz -C /usr/local/
# Add global variables (/etc/profile)
export ANT_HOME=/usr/local/apache-ant-1.10.5
export PATH=$PATH:$MAVEN_HOME/bin:$ANT_HOME/bin
source /etc/profile

Test

2.3 Jenkins configuration for Ant

System Settings → Global Tool Configuration

Create a Jenkinsfile

node {
    stage ("build"){
        antHome = tool 'ANT'
        sh "${antHome}/bin/ant -version"
    }
}

Build test Ant integration with Jenkins is now complete.

2.4 Common Ant command

ant -buildfile -f build.xml

3. Integrate Gradle

3.1 Prerequisites

Download Gradle from the official site.

Download

3.2 Install Gradle

unzip gradle-5.3-bin.zip -d /usr/local/
# Add global variables (/etc/profile)
export GRADLE_HOME=/usr/local/gradle-5.3
export PATH=$PATH: $GRADLE_HOME/bin
source /etc/profile

3.3 Jenkins configuration for Gradle

System Settings → Global Tool Configuration

Create a Jenkinsfile

node {
    stage ("gradlebuild"){
        gradleHome = tool 'GRADLE'
        sh "${gradleHome}/bin/gradle -v"
    }
}

Build test Gradle integration with Jenkins is now complete.

3.4 Common Gradle commands

./gradlew -v – displays version; first run downloads Gradle if not present.

./gradlew clean – deletes the build folder under HelloWorld/app .

./gradlew build – checks dependencies and compiles the package.

./gradlew assembleDebug – builds a debug APK.

./gradlew assembleRelease – builds a release APK.

./gradlew installRelease – packages and installs the release build.

./gradlew uninstallRelease – uninstalls the release package.

4. Integrate NPM

4.1 Prerequisites

Download Node.js from the official site.

4.2 Install Node

tar xf node-v10.15.3-linux-x64.tar.xz -C /usr/local/
# Add global variables (/etc/profile)
export NODE_HOME=/usr/local/node-v10.15.3-linux-x64
export PATH=$PATH: $NODE_HOME/bin
source /etc/profile

Test the installation.

4.3 Jenkins configuration for NPM

Node is not listed in Jenkins global tool configuration; define it directly in the Jenkinsfile.

Jenkinsfile example:

node {
    stage ("npmbuild"){
        sh """
           export npmHome=/usr/local/node-v10.15.3-linux-x64
           export PATH=$PATH:$npmHome/bin
           npm -v
           """
    }
}

Build test.

4.4 Common NPM build command

npm install && npm run build

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