This type of job allows you to record the execution of a process run outside Hudson, even on a remote machine. This is designed so that you can use Hudson as a dashboard of your existing automation system. See the documentation for more details.

This is the central feature of Hudson. Hudson will build your project, combining any SCM with any build system, and this can be even used for something other than software build.

Suitable for projects that need a large number of different configurations, such as testing on multiple environments, platform-specific builds, etc.

Build a maven2 project. Hudson takes advantage of your POM files and drastically reduces the configuration.