Re: [tycho-user] Custom build steps that work in Eclipse and Tycho?

[Jim Klo <jim.klo@xxxxxxx>]

Hi Igor,

I’d agree that that’s not what I want to do. I’d rather use the maven or ant enhancers for the ORM to generate the classes at build time only.

I did just find an eclipse plug-in for the ORM package I’m using https://github.com/ebean-orm/avaje-ebeanorm-eclipse, and that might be the way to go - but not sure how to use it :(. 

I’m currently using an ORM included javaagent to do the instrumentation at runtime - however that’s where my problem lies - you can’t perform the instrumentation with just the JRE - it *requires* the JDK. 

Bundling the JDK would not only probably increase the distribution by quite a lot (I’m guesses at least double), I’m not sure how to bundle it into the application as the eclipse bootstrap understands the <rcp-app-dir>/jre ( <rcp-app-dir>/eclipse.app/jre with some hacks on OS X).

Thanks,

Jim

On Feb 11, 2015, at 7:09 PM, Igor Fedorenko <igor@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

I do not recommend using build-time class instrumentation inside Eclipse
workspace, especially together with m2e. If your ORM solution comes with
Eclipse integration, you may be fine using that, but do not assume
you'll be able to adapt Maven plugin to work inside m2e.

I believe runtime class instrumentation using javaagent or equinox
classloading hooks is far better approach in the long run.

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