Goals to build eclipse plugin/feature and site

Details

  • Type: Improvement Improvement
  • Status: Open Open
  • Priority: Major Major
  • Resolution: Unresolved
  • Affects Version/s: 2.0
  • Fix Version/s: None
  • Component/s: PDE support
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Description

Please provide new goals to build eclipse plugin/feature and site using Eclipse's builder.

See following articles on the topic:

Build and Test Automation for plug-ins and features
http://eclipse.org/articles/Article-PDE-Automation/automation.html

Followup article - Building features and plugins with Ant
http://eclipse.techforge.com/index.php/articles/188

So, plugin can issue command like this:

set ECLIPSE_HOME=D:\eclipse\eclipse-3.0.2
java -cp %ECLIPSE_HOME%\startup.jar org.eclipse.core.launcher.Main
-application org.eclipse.ant.core.antRunner -buildfile build.xml
-Dcomponent=sdk.examples -Dconfigs=",,*" -Dbaseos=win32 -Dbasews=win32 -Dbasearch=x86 -Djavacfailonerror=true -Dpde.build.scripts=%ECLIPSE_HOME%/plugins/org.eclipse.pde.build_3.0.1/scripts -DbaseLocation=%ECLIPSE_HOME%

It will sort of run ant under the hood, but nobody will see it...

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Sharma, Jaikumar added a comment -

It would be very helpful for eclipse plugin developers to build eclipse plugins using Maven, if this improvement / issue is resolve as soon as possible, becuase, I do not find any other way to build plugins using Maven 2, except after this improvement is implemented.

Thanks.

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Sharma, Jaikumar added a comment - It would be very helpful for eclipse plugin developers to build eclipse plugins using Maven, if this improvement / issue is resolve as soon as possible, becuase, I do not find any other way to build plugins using Maven 2, except after this improvement is implemented. Thanks.
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Kenney Westerhof added a comment -

Shouldn't we have an eclipse packaging mojo for this that doesn't depend on an eclipse installation?

Could this possibly be solved by a generic OSGI packaging plugin?

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Kenney Westerhof added a comment - Shouldn't we have an eclipse packaging mojo for this that doesn't depend on an eclipse installation? Could this possibly be solved by a generic OSGI packaging plugin?
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Eugene Kuleshov added a comment -

Kenney, I just don't see how can you do that. Build still require Eclipse install to get dependencies and I don't think it would be a good idea to move these tependencies into Maven repo, unless you use Eclipse istall as a repository and also read Eclipse's manifests and plugin.xml's for dependency resolution... Sounds like more complicated task to me.

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Eugene Kuleshov added a comment - Kenney, I just don't see how can you do that. Build still require Eclipse install to get dependencies and I don't think it would be a good idea to move these tependencies into Maven repo, unless you use Eclipse istall as a repository and also read Eclipse's manifests and plugin.xml's for dependency resolution... Sounds like more complicated task to me.
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Dan Tran added a comment -

I just added pde-maven-plugin to mojo-sandbox.

http://mojo.codehaus.org/pde-maven-plugin

If there are enough interests and feedbacks, i can make alpha-1 release.

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Dan Tran added a comment - I just added pde-maven-plugin to mojo-sandbox. http://mojo.codehaus.org/pde-maven-plugin If there are enough interests and feedbacks, i can make alpha-1 release.
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krishna added a comment -

I am having an issue with mave-pde-plugin. When i try to build my eclipse feature using mave-pde-plugin. In the generated artifact the dependent plugins are not being included. The generated artifact is only bundled with my plugins, it is not bundling any of the eclipse runtime plugins.
I could export the same feature from eclipse ide without any issue. i could build this feature with headless pde build also.
Does any body had this issue in building the building the eclipse feature using maven? I very much appreciate, any help in this regard.

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krishna added a comment - I am having an issue with mave-pde-plugin. When i try to build my eclipse feature using mave-pde-plugin. In the generated artifact the dependent plugins are not being included. The generated artifact is only bundled with my plugins, it is not bundling any of the eclipse runtime plugins. I could export the same feature from eclipse ide without any issue. i could build this feature with headless pde build also. Does any body had this issue in building the building the eclipse feature using maven? I very much appreciate, any help in this regard.

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    Eugene Kuleshov
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