Optimized Component Lifecycle Management with Sonatype CLM

If you’re not already using a CI Server, this chapter should provide some strong encouragement to look into going this route. It’s our feeling that in order to get a complete Sonatype CLM experience and ensure that your component lifecycle processes sync with your development processes you will want to make sure you integrate the Sonatype CLM functionality for your CI Server.

For those of you that are already using a continuous integration (CI) server, you already realize the benefits that this provides to your team. In this chapter you should have taken away:

Again, this is a completely optional part of Sonatype CLM, but it is our recommended approach. Given this, not interfacing with a CI server won’t prohibit you from achieving success, it just makes it a little difficult.