Thank you for your answer! I was assuming that source control management 
was a part of Jenkins since both the Hudson and Jenkins module feature it, 
but if I understand correctly this is actually a plugin? I will look into 
the @Extension decorator as Mike mentioned and see if I can find it in 
action. 

Op vrijdag 28 februari 2020 11:30:07 UTC+1 schreef Esther Alvarez:
>
>
>
> I don't have a deep knowledge in jenkins, so apologies in advance if I say 
> something which is not accurate. 
>
> > What is the reason that plugins can be written in Kotlin?
> I would say that plugins can be written in any language executable by the 
> JVM that can interoperate with java classes, like scala and groovy. It may 
> be challenging having some maven plugins work with them, but should be 
> possible.
>
> > Would you say that an external interface used by Jenkins is a link to a 
> source control management system (eg. GitHub) ?
>
> Another main principle in Jenkins architecture is the plugins system. Most 
> of the features are implemented by plugins, including those that interact 
> with external interfaces. For example, the interaction with maven, node, 
> git or mercurial is implemented by plugins.
> So, answering your question, the source control management system is an 
> external interface, depending on which plugins you install. 
> Also, integration with LDAP for authentication, sonar for code analysis, 
> nexus and docker registries, kubernetes, SSH to un agents, all of them can 
> be external interfaces too. This list can be as long as you can imagine, as 
> anybody can create a plugin to connect with whatever they want.
>
>
> On Thu, Feb 27, 2020 at 9:21 PM Jeroen Haaksema <[email protected] 
> <javascript:>> wrote:
>
>> Hey Gwen, 
>>
>> Thank you for taking the time to write an answer! I'm not really sure how 
>> I got it in my head that Oracle built Jenkins but that interview is really 
>> helpfull. 
>>
>> Op donderdag 27 februari 2020 17:27:45 UTC+1 schreef Gwen:
>>>
>>> Hey - I sit on this mailing list and am looking at some newbie-issues; 
>>> I'm definitely not a core developer or anything, but I wanted to tackle the 
>>> Jenkins in Java question.
>>>
>>>
>>> On Thu, Feb 27, 2020 at 8:07 AM Jeroen Haaksema <[email protected]> 
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Hello, 
>>>>
>>>> First of, I’m really sorry if this is not the right place to ask this, 
>>>> if not please let me know who I could direct this to!I am a CS student who 
>>>> is doing a course on architecture and I have chosen Jenkins. Part of the 
>>>> course is communicating with the architect. There doesn’t seem to be just 
>>>> a 
>>>> single architect within Jenkins and your group seems to me the closest I 
>>>> will get to an actual architect. The assignment I’m working on is a 
>>>> reconstruction of the architecture from an open source software project 
>>>> and 
>>>> one of the things we are looking at is Architecturally Significant 
>>>> Requirements(ASR). Which comes down to requirements set in stone with no 
>>>> wiggle room. I would really appreciate it if someone would be able to 
>>>> either confirm or deny if the ASR’s I have defined are correct. 
>>>>
>>>>    - Would you say that part of the reason that Jenkins was developed 
>>>>    in Java is due to that this means that the codebase can be used for 
>>>> Linux, 
>>>>    Mac Os X and Windows? (this obviously skips over that Oracle, the owner 
>>>> of 
>>>>    Java was part of the inception of Jenkins)
>>>>
>>>>
>>> If you do a quick wikipedia search for the Jenkins project, you'll see 
>>> that it didn't originate in Oracle at all. Kohsuke Kawagachi, the original 
>>> author, worked at Sun Microsystems, the original developer of the JVM :  )
>>>
>>> Checking the references on the wikipedia page got me to this interview 
>>> with Kohsuke after he received an O'Reilly Open Source Achievement Award 
>>> https://www.red-gate.com/simple-talk/opinion/geek-of-the-week/kohsuke-kawaguchi-geek-of-the-week/.
>>>  
>>> I picked that because I figure an interview about an award normally covers 
>>> "How did this project start?" kinds of questions.
>>>
>>> A quote from that article reads:
>>> ====
>>> There were several motivations for writing it. One was that despite I 
>>> was working in a group of Sun Microsystems that designed and developed 
>>> JavaEE (the framework layer for server applications written in Java), I’ve 
>>> never written apps on top of it. And that’s not a good thing. I’d been 
>>> meaning to write one so effectively that idea became Jenkins; I thought 
>>> this could be a good vehicle to make myself learn JavaEE.
>>> ====
>>>
>>> So, he chose Java because he wanted to motivate himself to learn JavaEE 
>>> for work.
>>>
>>>>
>>>>    - 
>>>>    - Would you say that using HTTP to manage slave nodes is to make it 
>>>>    possible for Jenkins to have nodes on different operating systems 
>>>> working 
>>>>    together? 
>>>>
>>>> Furthermore I have some other questions: 
>>>>
>>>>    - Would you say that one of the main features of Jenkins is the 
>>>>    Pipeline and the option to customise which steps are taken including 
>>>> the 
>>>>    order and possible steps after the completion of test? 
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>    - What is the reason that plugins can be written in Kotlin? 
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>    - Would you say that an external interface used by Jenkins is a 
>>>>    link to a source control management system (eg. GitHub) ? 
>>>>
>>>>  
>>>>
>>>> I understand that most if not all of you are working on this on a 
>>>> voluntary basis but if you could steer me in the right way or answer some 
>>>> of these questions it would be greatly appreciated! 
>>>>
>>>>  
>>>>
>>>> Kind regards, 
>>>>
>>>>  
>>>>
>>>> Jeroen Haaksema
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