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Few weeks ago we had a need to move to Scala in order to do some things in Spark using APIs available for that language only. In order to speed up things while starting to learn it and minimize the impact on the existing components and the ongoing CI process, we found the dirty way discussed in this post to quickly start with. Started to use the Scala IDE for Eclipse and did the following actions to create new Scala projects:  - Create a new Scala project ( File -> New -> Scala Project ).  - Add the Maven nature to it ( Configure -> Convert to Maven Project ). All of our existing projects in the same area are built through Maven and our Jenkins CI servers use Maven to build after any code change and do a lot of other actions (Unit Tests execution, static analysis of the code, code coverage and many others) through it. That's the main reason we are not using sbt. The m2eclipse-scala and the m2e plugins are bundled with the Scala IDE, so no need to install them.  - Rem

A new release of the Jenkins post-build action plugin to publish build jobs execution data to a Kafka topic is now available on my GitHub space ( https://github.com/virtualramblas/publishtokafka-plugin ). All the details in the project README file. Please send me your feedback commenting this post or adding a new issue (todo, feature request or bug) to the GitHub plugin repository whether you have a chance to use it. Thanks a lot.

StreamSets Data Collector (SDC) allows user authentication based on files or LDAP. By default, Data Collector uses file authentication. This post gives you details on how to switch to use your company's LDAP. To enable LDAP authentication you need to perform the following tasks: - Configure the LDAP properties for the Data Collector configuration editing the $SDC_CONF/sdc.properties file:      - set the value of the http.authentication.login.module property to ldap      - configure the value of the http.authentication.ldap.role.mapping property to map your LDAP groups to Data Collector roles following this syntax:             <LDAP_group>:<SDC_role>,<additional_SDC_role>,<additional_SDC_role>         Multiple roles can be mapped to the same group or vice versa. You need to use a semicolon to separate LDAP groups and commas to separate Data Collector roles. Here's an example:             http.authentication.ldap.role.mapping=LDAP000:admin;LDAP