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OCL jars from Maven [message #1802899] Mon, 18 February 2019 17:31 Go to next message
Edouard R. Batot is currently offline Edouard R. BatotFriend
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Hi folks,

I am trying to rebuild an old project and look for OCL, UML etc. jars for Maven.

I am looking, for example, to
- org.eclipse.ocl.uml 5.2.0
- org.eclipse.uml2.uml 3.1.1
- org.eclipse.core.runtime 3.1.0

Any idea where I can find these ?

Thank you,
Edouard


[edit]
What I find on Maven repository are close version (4.1 instead of 3.1 for example, and I would try to fix it, but unfortunately, even these close version show problem to download from Maven "the dependency does not exist" they say)

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Re: OCL jars from Maven [message #1802901 is a reply to message #1802899] Mon, 18 February 2019 17:43 Go to previous messageGo to next message
Ed Willink is currently offline Ed WillinkFriend
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Hi

Eclipse projects are mostly not available from Maven Central. Unfortunately some enthusiatic/irresponsible users have put up unofficial copies of some projects. These are generally embarrassingly stale.

The official repo for Eclipse projects is repo.eclipse.org, but many projects are missing / stale there too. I have yet to learn how to push OCL releases there.

Eclipse is normally built with Tycho which adds P2 repository facilities to Maven. I strongly recommend that you use Tycho until you are confident that all the projects you require are in repo.eclipse.org. They may never be in Maven Central.

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Ed Willink
Re: OCL jars from Maven [message #1826077 is a reply to message #1802901] Sat, 18 April 2020 12:11 Go to previous messageGo to next message
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Ed Willink wrote on Mon, 18 February 2019 17:43

The official repo for Eclipse projects is repo.eclipse.org, but many projects are missing / stale there too. I have yet to learn how to push OCL releases there.

Eclipse is normally built with Tycho which adds P2 repository facilities to Maven. I strongly recommend that you use Tycho until you are confident that all the projects you require are in repo.eclipse.org.


Dear Ed,

Apologies for resurrecting an old thread. I was searching ocl pivot jars in http://repo.eclipse.org, but with no great success. It is possible that I misunderstand which jars are needed to include pivot standalone setup, but it is probably more likely that they are not there, given your post above.

So this is:

1) A quick question to confirm that indeed these are not officially released

and

2) A polite request to suggest how to extract jar files from Tycho for a non-tycho user. The documentation suggests to seek in the Eclipse installation folders, but I am not finding any ocl jars there (even though ocl constraints are correctly validated on instances in the IDE; I am using Eclipse 2020-03 (4.15.0))

I think it is useful to respond here, because Google brings queries on maven and gradle setup for OCL here. I appreciate any suggestions.
Re: OCL jars from Maven [message #1826117 is a reply to message #1826077] Sun, 19 April 2020 19:52 Go to previous messageGo to next message
Ed Willink is currently offline Ed WillinkFriend
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Hi

Unfortunately the centralised Eclipse production of P2 repos, is not echoed centrally for use by Maven despite many requests. Consequently each project has to learn how to publish by itself. Since I see no use case in my world, I don't struggle. I have other important things to do. However I think I have requested the required support folders so it is just a matter of learning to do the copy... I'll take another look.

Watch https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=525996 for the Eureka.

Regards

Ed Willink
Re: OCL jars from Maven [message #1826137 is a reply to message #1826117] Mon, 20 April 2020 07:32 Go to previous messageGo to next message
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Subscribed! I really appreciate.
Re: OCL jars from Maven [message #1826157 is a reply to message #1826137] Mon, 20 April 2020 12:49 Go to previous messageGo to next message
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Hi, the conversation in bug https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=525996 has not developed very optimistically. I think I need a more pragmatic solution. I think I can commit OCL jars into my build directory. So I am asking for a bit of advice: where do I find OCL jars reliably (or how do I build them?)

I checked my Eclipse (2020-03) plugins folder and I found nothing there, even though oclinecore seems to be working. I'd appreciate a hint.
Re: OCL jars from Maven [message #1826165 is a reply to message #1826157] Mon, 20 April 2020 14:46 Go to previous messageGo to next message
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Hi

Eclipse users (and Eclipse projects are the same as users in this respect) use Tycho, which extends Maven so that is able to read from an Eclipse repo folder such as

https://download.eclipse.org/modeling/mdt/ocl/updates/releases/6.11.0

using e.g.

https://git.eclipse.org/r/plugins/gitiles/ocl/org.eclipse.ocl/+/master/releng/org.eclipse.ocl.releng.tycho/targetPlatforms/stable.target

to specify what is required by

https://git.eclipse.org/r/plugins/gitiles/ocl/org.eclipse.ocl/+/master/releng/org.eclipse.ocl.releng.tycho/pom.xml

Some Eclipse users use Gradle, which I suspect is in principle better, but observing from the sidelines I see an awful lot of extra Gradle-specific difficulties.

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Re: OCL jars from Maven [message #1826167 is a reply to message #1826165] Mon, 20 April 2020 14:55 Go to previous messageGo to next message
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The default build from checked out projects just relies on Java and other builders to convert *.java to *.class. In the old days this could be deployed after a File->Export...->Plugin Development .....

If you really want to build a modern distribution, then make sure you have the releng/tycho and releng/build-site folders checked out, and m2e integration installed, and then just Run->Run Configurations...m2e Build OCL Nightly/Interim/Stable. The result such as /org.eclipse.ocl.releng.build-site/target/org.eclipse.ocl-6.11.0.N20200406-1339.zip should appear and be identical to the normal distributions built on Jenkins except that they will not be signed.

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Ed Willink
Re: OCL jars from Maven [message #1826169 is a reply to message #1826167] Mon, 20 April 2020 15:21 Go to previous messageGo to next message
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I'll start to look into this tomorrow. I am indeed using gradle for my project, but I will be just trying to get the right jars for it to go through. I do not need to build them with gradle. It is amazing how hard is to build stuff in 2020. Seems much harder than 20 years ago...
Re: OCL jars from Maven [message #1826190 is a reply to message #1826169] Mon, 20 April 2020 18:17 Go to previous messageGo to next message
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Hi

The old fashioned way might be to download a ZIP from:

https://www.eclipse.org/modeling/mdt/downloads/?project=ocl

unzip and use the JARs.

It is the magic let-me-fetch-the-latest-jar-for-you tools that make it so hard becuase they need so much help and have so many ways of going wrong.

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Ed Willink
Re: OCL jars from Maven [message #1826310 is a reply to message #1826190] Thu, 23 April 2020 10:49 Go to previous messageGo to next message
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Ed,

I think I like the old fashioned way. I am pursuing this suggestion (thanks). I got all the plugin jars and dropped them into my gradle project. Then I asked gradle to include all of them (in desperation, I will optimize the necessary dependencies while things work). Now I tried to ways of setting up the standalone setup. With the following results.

1) If I only do

org.eclipse.ocl.pivot.utilities.PivotStandaloneSetup.doSetup()


This makes my build go through but any attempt to load an ecore instance of an OCL-annotated model gets me an error of the following kind:

    +      test-00:An exception occurred while delegating evaluation of the 'C1' constraint on 'mdsebook.fsm.impl.ModelI
mpl@6b60858c{../mdsebook.fsm/test-files/test-00.xmi#/}': java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: Could not initialize class org.
eclipse.ocl.pivot.library.oclany.OclAnyNotEqualOperation


This looks like the delegate is still not initialized?

2) So I added also the following to the above:

org.eclipse.ocl.xtext.completeocl.CompleteOCLStandaloneSetup.doSetup()


But this I am unable to compile, with the following error:

Class org.eclipse.xtext.ISetup not found


(the above message is from a Scala compiler, but the java compiler message for the same invocation is similar: 'error: can not access ISetup'). Strangely enough this error is reported a few lines below the above change. I do not really understand what is going on. I couldn't find the org.eclipse.xtext.ISetup class in any of the jar files from the OCL distribution.

3) I also tried to follow the instructions at: https://help.eclipse.org/2020-03/index.jsp?topic=%2Forg.eclipse.ocl.doc%2Fhelp%2FPivotStandalone.html

But these seem to fail compiling already on the very first line of the setup:

object OCL is  not a member of package org.eclipse.ocl.pivot


Since I already took all the plugin jars I do not know where to search for the missing files.

Probably I did not get all the jars. I will keep searching, but any help in any of the three directions above would be highly appreciated. Thanks!

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Re: OCL jars from Maven [message #1826362 is a reply to message #1826310] Fri, 24 April 2020 05:02 Go to previous messageGo to next message
Ed Willink is currently offline Ed WillinkFriend
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Hi

What you describe is quite im,possible, but I can only guess at the madness of maven.

If you can execute org.eclipse.ocl.pivot.utilities.PivotStandaloneSetup.doSetup() then you have found eclipse.ocl.pivot and so the failure to load class org.eclipse.ocl.pivot.library.oclany.OclAnyNotEqualOperation would seem impossible. However there is some careful ClassLoader work that ensures that classes are loaded from the user rather than tool classpath which ensures that user additions are found. My guess is that you somehow hoave a grossly deficient user classpath.

org.eclipse.xtext.ISetup is a very basic Xtext class, so you clearly do not have Xtext on your classpath.

Bottom line. You do not have a sensible classpath. Isn't Java wonderful?

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Ed Willink
Re: OCL jars from Maven [message #1826364 is a reply to message #1826362] Fri, 24 April 2020 06:07 Go to previous messageGo to next message
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Good hints. I am on it. (I obviously missed that the error involves an org.eclipse.xtext class, not an org.eclipse.ocl.xtext class ... )

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Re: OCL jars from Maven [message #1826377 is a reply to message #1826364] Fri, 24 April 2020 07:29 Go to previous messageGo to next message
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HI Andrezj,

A couple of years ago I did exactly the same painstaking exercise you are now doing. Adding a jar at a time until I got a good classpath.

The java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError exception is because one of the superclasses of OclAnyNotEqualOperation can not be found.

The minimal list of dependencies for OCL 6.3 that I got was (I use OCL+UML so may be in your case the list might be shorter) :

-a---- 04/12/2019 16:46 151989 antlr-runtime-3.2.jar
-a---- 04/12/2019 16:46 2172168 guava-15.0.jar
-a---- 04/12/2019 16:46 710492 guice-3.0.jar
-a---- 04/12/2019 16:46 2497 javax.inject-1.jar
-a---- 04/12/2019 16:46 481535 log4j-1.2.16.jar
-a---- 04/12/2019 16:46 206568 org.antlr.runtime-3.2.0-v201101311130.jar
-a---- 04/12/2019 16:46 415047 org.apache.log4j-1.2.15-v201012070815.jar
-a---- 04/12/2019 16:46 357670 org.eclipse.emf.common-2.12.0.jar
-a---- 04/12/2019 16:46 1190945 org.eclipse.emf.ecore-2.12.0.jar
-a---- 04/12/2019 16:46 230424 org.eclipse.emf.ecore.xmi-2.12.0.jar
-a---- 04/12/2019 16:46 278989 org.eclipse.emf.edit-2.12.0.jar
-a---- 04/12/2019 16:46 40680 org.eclipse.emf.mapping.ecore2xml-2.9.0-v20150806-0404.jar
-a---- 04/12/2019 16:46 121509 org.eclipse.equinox.common-3.9.0.jar
-a---- 04/12/2019 16:46 109196 org.eclipse.equinox.supplement-1.7.0.jar
-a---- 04/12/2019 16:46 34381 org.eclipse.ocl.common-1.4.200-v20160613-1518.jar
-a---- 04/12/2019 16:46 3120018 org.eclipse.ocl.pivot-1.3.0-v20170522-1753.jar
-a---- 04/12/2019 16:46 241562 org.eclipse.ocl.pivot.uml-1.3.0-v20170613-1432.jar
-a---- 04/12/2019 16:46 549893 org.eclipse.ocl.xtext.base-1.3.0-v20170522-1753.jar
-a---- 04/12/2019 16:46 365309 org.eclipse.ocl.xtext.completeocl-1.3.0-v20170522-1753.jar
-a---- 04/12/2019 16:46 659401 org.eclipse.ocl.xtext.essentialocl-1.3.0-v20170522-1753.jar
-a---- 04/12/2019 16:46 90236 org.eclipse.uml2.common-2.1.0-v20170530-1052.jar
-a---- 04/12/2019 16:46 18761 org.eclipse.uml2.types-2.0.0-v20170530-1052.jar
-a---- 04/12/2019 16:46 3456603 org.eclipse.uml2.uml-5.2.4-v20170530-1052.jar
-a---- 04/12/2019 16:46 136186 org.eclipse.uml2.uml.profile.standard-1.0.100-v20170530-1052.jar
-a---- 04/12/2019 16:46 262863 org.eclipse.uml2.uml.resources-5.2.0-v20170530-1052.jar
-a---- 04/12/2019 16:46 2615136 org.eclipse.xtext-2.10.0.jar
-a---- 04/12/2019 16:46 284321 org.eclipse.xtext.util-2.10.1-SNAPSHOT.jar
-a---- 04/12/2019 16:48 2398 THIRD-PARTY-LICENSES


I think you should find the corresponding jars for the version of OCL that you are using.

At the end I automatized everything with maven by mirroring the p2 updatesites and producing a local maven repository and then using standard maven dependencies (and painstakingly adding a dependency at a time with the good version) .

After that I moved to use maven tycho , so I never maintained that old stuff, but it still works and I can build my old projects, if you are interested I can explain you what I did

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Re: OCL jars from Maven [message #1826380 is a reply to message #1826377] Fri, 24 April 2020 07:53 Go to previous messageGo to next message
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Hi again,

I forgot to mention that I only used completeocl for writing validations for UML models.

But I did not use oclInEcore so there are probably other jars necessary for ocl's ecore delegation to work
Re: OCL jars from Maven [message #1826384 is a reply to message #1826362] Fri, 24 April 2020 08:47 Go to previous messageGo to next message
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You might find https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=535507 relevant in that it provides the requisite classpath to run the full Pivot OCL test suite in a 'non-OSGI' context. The similar tests for the Ecore/UML standalone tests form part of the regular release testing and have a modest 10ish classpath.

Unfortunately the pivot tests do much more and until refactored to separate core model parsing/evaluation from editing and other UX, the apparent classpath is huge.

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Ed Willink
Re: OCL jars from Maven [message #1826386 is a reply to message #1826384] Fri, 24 April 2020 08:56 Go to previous messageGo to next message
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German Vega's list is much as I intended and much shorter than the bloated list in https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=535507 .

The list can be further trimmed by eliminating the 6 UML plugins. The current functionality is that UML support is optional, but if it's on the classpath, some type resolutions incur is-it-UML overheads that https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=526813 demands improvements for.

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Ed Willink
Re: OCL jars from Maven [message #1826395 is a reply to message #1826386] Fri, 24 April 2020 10:43 Go to previous messageGo to next message
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Thanks guys. I got it to work. I think I will not optimize the classpath for now but just commit the entire release of MDT-OCL. This way it should be easier for me to upgrade in the future (even if this sounds excessive).

For the record this is what I did (for folks attempting to use OCL in a gradle build AD 2020). I have the following dependency setup in build.gradle:

dependencies {

  // stuff needed mostly for EMF
  compile "org.eclipse.emf:org.eclipse.emf.ecore:$emfVersion"
  compile "org.eclipse.emf:org.eclipse.emf.ecore.xmi:$emfVersion"
  compile "org.eclipse.emf:org.eclipse.emf.edit:$emfVersion"
  compile "org.eclipse.emf:org.eclipse.emf.common:$emfVersion"

  // Stuff needed for OCL
  compile fileTree (include: ['*.jar'], dir: '../lib')
  compile "org.eclipse.xtext:org.eclipse.xtext:${xtextVersion}"
}


$emfVersion and $xtextVersion is set up globally in my project. I downloaded the MDT-OCL distribution from https://www.eclipse.org/modeling/mdt/downloads/?project=ocl , following Ed's advice, unzipped it, and dropped all plugin jars into 'lib/'. The lib in dependencies above is prefixed with '../' because my build is a multi-project build so I have to pull jars from level above. In a single project build you should not need this. This was actually quite hard to debug, as gradle (at least at the current version) reports no error if jars cannot be found at the specified location. Not even if you depend on concrete file names. Presently I work with jars from MDT-OCL 6.9.0.

I created the constraints using the OCLInEcore editor in Eclipse. I don't actually use Eclipse for my daily work, but this editor is convenient, as it directly embeds the constraints in an ecore file. I used Pivot OCL variant (at least this is the meta-model referenced from my Ecore files after the operation).

In Scala, I initialized the OCL setup with

  org.eclipse.ocl.xtext.essentialocl.EssentialOCLStandaloneSetup.doSetup


In Java you need to add parentheses and semicolons. The OCL documentation at https://help.eclipse.org/2020-03/index.jsp?topic=%2Forg.eclipse.ocl.doc%2Fhelp%2FPivotStandalone.html seems to be outdated. Several steps do not seem to work anymore (classes have apparently been moved around). But with a bit of tweaking I arrived at the above. This allowed me to use Ecore validation API, as follows:

      val diagnostic = Diagnostician.INSTANCE.validate (eObject)


After the OCL annotations have been added to the meta-model, this also checks OCL constraints, and seems to behave as expected. That is constraints fail when I expect them to fail. I hope others may find this info useful.

The project will be available here: https://bitbucket.org/dsldesign/dsldesign if folks wanna see how to use OCL from gradle. But it will take me some time to push. I still need to sort out a few issues, and decides how to organize the example. If I remember, I will update the link in this post, after I have done that.

Thank you both for helping.

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Re: OCL jars from Maven [message #1826400 is a reply to message #1826395] Fri, 24 April 2020 12:18 Go to previous messageGo to next message
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Hi

https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=562464 raised for the obsolete documentation.

I only see the two obsolete org.eclipse.ocl.library, org.eclipse.ocl.pivot.internal plugins that have been folded into org.eclipse.ocl.pivot

Please add any other observations to the Bugzilla.

I've tried to make the initialization as easy as possible and a certain amount of lazy init occurs automatically so you should find that

org.eclipse.ocl.xtext.essentialocl.EssentialOCLStandaloneSetup.doSetup

is sufficient.

---

Thank you for providing full details of your solution; always helpful to others. In the case of Gradle maybe helpful to me too. If you care to attach your solution to a new OCL Bugzilla and if you've signed the CLA, I might be able to add it to the OCL documentation / examples.

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Ed Willink
Re: OCL jars from Maven [message #1826425 is a reply to message #1826395] Fri, 24 April 2020 16:38 Go to previous messageGo to next message
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Hello,

To complement Andrzej work with gradle I have just produced a working, self-contained version of my previous attempts for automating maven building of standalone OCL programs.

DISCLAIMER: the easiest, well supported, way to use maven for eclipse projects is to use eclipse tycho. These instructions are for people who cannot (or don't want to) use tycho, and need a more "plain" maven solution.

Attached you will find two maven projects :

1) eclispe.maven.repository

This projects mirrors the official updatesites of OCL (6.11), Xtext(2.21) and EMF(2.21) into a local maven repository. I have not mirrored everything, only runtime artifacts (no UI, editors or generators) and some required transitive dependencies.

Mirroring is performed using CBI aggregator, as I said before it mirrors officially released jars (with hash validated during download). The specification of the updatesites used and the features mirrored is defined in file src/main/resources/maven.repository.aggregator

To perform the mirroring just build the project (mvn clean install). This will download the artifacts from the update sites (may take some time, specially these days of lockdown) and produces a big zip file (in the "target" directory).

If you extract the zip you will get a maven repository with all the artifacts as well as metadata (pom.xml) for each artifact ( including transitive dependencies declarations).

You can use this repository to build your projects using maven or gradle, instead of relying on some untrusted version that happens to exist in maven central.

The pom of this file also defines a BOM (Bill of Materials) that you can import from your maven project (see importing dependencies) to avoid handcoding version numbers; The BOM is defined in the <dependencyManagement> of the pom of this project.

2) completeocl.standalone.test

This is a test project that shows how to build an stand-alone OCL project using maven (and the repository mirrored by the previous step)

The code of the project is a ecore metamodel (located in directory src/main/resources/model) with constraints defined using oclinecore. Other than the emf generated classes, there is a single main Launcher class that creates two models (one that satisfies the constraints and one that fails) and validates them.

To test the project just build it (mvn clean install) this will generate a zip file (in the "target" directory). If you unzip it you will get a single jar (with the code of the metamodel and the Launcher) and a "libs" directory with the required dependencies jars. To run it, just "java - jar <name of the jar>"

The pom.xml of this project illustrates the following points:

  • the first time that the project is built (in the pre-clean phase) it takes the zip produced by the built of the project eclispe.maven.repository and extract it in the "repository" directory

  • It defines a local maven <repository> that points to the "repository" directory

  • it imports the BOM defined in the eclispe.maven.repository

  • it has a minimal (handcrafted) list of <dependencies> required to compile and run the code

  • it automatically copies the (transitive) dependencies to the "libs" directory

  • it automatically adds the MANISFEST.MF required to run the generated jar directly (specifically it adds a classpath entry thar points to the jars in the "libs" directory)

  • it zips everything to get a self-contained releasable artifact

I suppose that a similar setup can be achieved in Gradle (but I am not sufficiently proficient with Gradle to do it myself)

Hope this helps other people that come to this thread in the future.

Regards

G. Vega

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Re: OCL jars from Maven [message #1826437 is a reply to message #1826425] Fri, 24 April 2020 20:10 Go to previous messageGo to next message
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Thank you both for these examples. I have raised https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=562475 to at least reference these from the OCL documentation.

----

Showing my ignorance....

Maven users seem to like Maven and dislike having to look beyond Maven Central.

Tycho seems to provide all sorts of extensions to Maven to facilitate Eclipse Plugin Development.

Eclipse publishes P2 repos not maven tepos.

Is there a relatively minimal maven snippet that uses Tycho and perhaps its target definition to load Eclipse P2 repos so that Maven can use them? If so, it should be a relatively simple cut and paste of the snippet to exploit P2 repos in Maven. Maybe the snippet could be streamlined by a variant Tycho mojo.

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Ed Willink
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Ed Willink wrote on Fri, 24 April 2020 12:18
Hi
I've tried to make the initialization as easy as possible and a certain amount of lazy init occurs automatically so you should find that

org.eclipse.ocl.xtext.essentialocl.EssentialOCLStandaloneSetup.doSetup

is sufficient.


You're correct. I think I failed to distinguish my errors from initialization errors (which I do now, once things work), and I was able to remove 2 lines of initialization above. I will edit the post to be shorter.

Quote:

Thank you for providing full details of your solution; always helpful to others. In the case of Gradle maybe helpful to me too. If you care to attach your solution to a new OCL Bugzilla and if you've signed the CLA, I might be able to add it to the OCL documentation / examples.


I have not signed CLA (I don't know what that is). Right now this example is a part of way too large codebase involving many small examples in various languages. I may extract a minimum example (I guess 1 gradle file + 1 java file) if you want.
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Hi Ed,

Sorry I skipped your question

Quote:

Maven users seem to like Maven and dislike having to look beyond Maven Central.

Tycho seems to provide all sorts of extensions to Maven to facilitate Eclipse Plugin Development.

Eclipse publishes P2 repos not maven tepos.

Is there a relatively minimal maven snippet that uses Tycho and perhaps its target definition to load Eclipse P2 repos so that Maven can use them? If so, it should be a relatively simple cut and paste of the snippet to exploit P2 repos in Maven. Maybe the snippet could be streamlined by a variant Tycho mojo.


I am not completely sure to understand you question, but I suppose that you want a maven snippet to automate the transformation of a p2 udatesite into a maven repository.

That's exactly what the eclispe.maven.repository project in my contribution does. You can take a look at it and extract the relevant parts. The important thing is that you need to write a CBI aggregator file to specify what you want to mirror and where to find the dependencies. This information is somehow redundant with the tycho target platforms, in my projects I maintained both synchronized by hand. And you may end-up needing different versions of this file for different kind of publishing (release, nightly, etc)

That said, however, my utility is a fast and dirty solution that doesn't consider many details, and it is far from usable in a production project. My only goal when I wrote that utility was to be able to have a maven repository of eclipse artifacts that I can use to locally resolve dependencies of standard maven projects without using tycho. The produced repository was never meant to be published.

If you refer to the process to release eclipse platform to maven central my script corresponds to a very simplified version of step 1 ("Run the aggregator"), all the other steps are missing.

The important missing considerations are :

1) Consistent naming : ids of eclipse artifacts must be consistently translated to maven groupId and artifactId. For OCL this seems straightforward as all the artifacts seems to have a common prefix.

2) Consistent versioning : you have to find equivalence between the eclipse version numbering and the maven versionning schema . For major.minor.increment this seems straightforward, the problem usually comes with qualifiers. Some eclipse release qualifiers (like RC1 or M1) do not compare properly when used with the maven algorithm, so they need to be renamed. You also have to find an equivalence to maven SNAPSHOT versions, perhaps nightly builds?

3) Dependencies to third-party libraries. Many eclipse projects depends on libraries coming from the orbit p2 repositories. However these libraries also exist in the maven central with different naming conventions. In the generated pom metadata it is better to translate these dependencies to refer to the projects in the maven central.

All of these 3 steps can be automated using the CBI aggegator (that both my maven script and the platform releng shell script ultimately rely on), so you can take a look at the platform aggregator for inspiration.

4) Streamlining the repository. Many eclipse artifacts (features for example) do not have any interest in maven, so you can remove them from the repository.

5) Adding metadata to POM. The pom generated by CBI aggregator only include the dependency information. You may want to add more metadata : licenses, contributors, SCM repository, issue management url, etc. Apparently platform releng have a tool to automate that.

6) Sources and javadocs. If you generate sources and javadocs for your artifacts, it would be nice to attach them to their respective maven artifacts. This is more or less easy depending if you have the same granularity for code and documentation. Maven needs a single source or javadoc per artifact. If you have several binary eclipse plugins and a single javadoc or source feature the correspondence is not that easy.

7) Signing the artifacts

8) Publishing to the OSSRH nexus

All in all, given all these devilish details, producing a maven repository for an eclipse project, that did not have that in mind from the beginning, is really a pain.

I am not a contributor of any eclipse project, so I am not familiar with the eclipse releng infrastructure, and how these general considerations are declined (for instance, how signing keys are handled?). Perhaps you can get a better advice from people with maven experience in other eclipse projects. The people from xtext seems to have a nicely working maven releng infrastructure.

Regards,
G. Vega

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Re: OCL jars from Maven [message #1826613 is a reply to message #1826580] Mon, 27 April 2020 18:13 Go to previous messageGo to next message
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Thanks, or perhaps no thanks. That is much more complicated than I expected and certainly enough to persuade me that a half day of my effort is not going to help my users.

Hopefully your very detailed comments will help genuine Maven users to help each other.

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Ed Willink
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