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Explanation of 2.9 parent and target projects [message #1719299]

Wed, 06 January 2016 21:04

Larry LeBron

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Registered: October 2015

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I'm starting my first new project using 2.9, and am completely new to Maven.
Can anyone briefly explain what the "target" and "parent" projects are, which are created when I enable Maven building?

My use case is an Xbase DSL which I'd like to share with other eclipse users in as simple a way as possible. In the past I'd built p2s using buckminster.

Do these projects enable this type of functionality?

Thanks!

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Re: Explanation of 2.9 parent and target projects [message #1719305 is a reply to message #1719299]

Wed, 06 January 2016 22:28

Christian Dietrich

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Registered: July 2009

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Xtext uses Maven Tycho for the build https://eclipse.org/tycho/ http://wiki.eclipse.org/Category:Tycho
- the parent pom defines an aggregator build (see maven docs) so that multiple modules can be built with one maven command. it contains configurations that apply to all child modules as well.
- the target project contains the eclipse target definition which the build is done against (which dependencies can be found in which p2 repositories) http://www.vogella.com/tutorials/EclipseTargetPlatform/article.html

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