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Building an Eclipse Plugin (depending on another Eclipse Plugin) using Maven [message #528323]

Tue, 20 April 2010 07:51

Messages: 13
Registered: March 2010

Junior Member

Hi,

I am attempting to use Maven to build two Eclipse plug-ins, I am implementing an ODA driver and the UI for the BIRT reporting extension.

So my two plugins:

1. The Driver plug-in
2. The UI plug-in which depends on the Driver plug-in

I have setup both plug-ins' poms very similarly, the included Maven plugins that do the majority of the build stuff are listed below:

The maven-eclipse-plugin with PDE set to true
The maven-dependency-plugin which copies dependencies (jars) listed in the POM into the root directory of the plug-in and then included in the classpath when built
The pde-maven-plugin

I am unsure how I specifiy that the Driver plug-in is needed by the UI plug-in. I have added the Drvier plug-in to the 'Require-Bundle' attribute of UI's manifest file which means that both plug-ins successfully build and work when tested in Eclipse, but when I perform 'mvn install' for the UI plug-in, I get loads of compile errors saying that any classes contained in the Driver plug-in cannot be found...

The Driver plug-in builds with no issues, so I thought that maybe I could add it to the list of dependencies for the UI plug-in (in the UI's POM), but if I do this, since packaging is zip I cannot add to the classpath like other dependencies. If I change the Driver's packaging to jar the Driver fails to build...I'm stuck!

Any ideas?
Thanks in advance.

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Re: Building an Eclipse Plugin (depending on another Eclipse Plugin) using Maven [message #528353 is a reply to message #528323]

Tue, 20 April 2010 08:49

Mickael Istria

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Registered: July 2009
Location: Grenoble, France

Senior Member

Tycho 0.8 with Maven 3 is what you need:
* http://www.eclipse.org/proposals/tycho/
* http://mattiasholmqvist.se/2010/02/building-with-tycho-part- 1-osgi-bundles/
* http://divby0.blogspot.com/2010/03/im-in-love-with-tycho-08- and-maven-3.html

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Re: Building an Eclipse Plugin (depending on another Eclipse Plugin) using Maven [message #528711 is a reply to message #528323]

Wed, 21 April 2010 14:45

Messages: 13
Registered: March 2010

Junior Member

If anyone's interested I managed to get it to work - a little bit hacky...

I added an ant task on the install phase of the Driver plug-in's build process, and that task simply copies the class files which are placed under: target/pdeTemp/plugins/${plugin-name}_${version}/@dot, into: target/classes.

Now it compiles!

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