Jenkins

Jenkins is open source server to host continuous integration development projects install java development kit 8 and set JAVA_HOME environment variable in your machine the reason is because any application that is dependent on java would need it to be there create a new job on jenkins ( it have a console output part that will get executed if my build becomes successful - blue dot) got to manage plugin to get install the github plugin for jenkins info at : https://wiki.jenkins.io/display/JENKINS/GitHub+Plugin   Various events in a Apache Maven life cycle 1. validate - validate that the project is correct and all the necessary information available 2. compile - compile the source code of the project 3. test - test the compiled code to using a suitable unit testing framework 4. package - take the compiled code and package in a distribute-able  format such as a .jar 5. verify - run any checks on results of integration test to ensure quality are met 6. install - install the project in local repository, for use as dependency in other projects 7.  deploy - copy the final package to remote repository for sharing with other developers and projects