[tycho-user] Adding dropins capability using tycho

[Chiranga Alwis <chirangaalwis@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hi, 

I am Chiranga Alwis. I am working on integrating the dropins capability (same functionality we get in Equinox) to WSO2 Carbon kernel. So far the kernel code base has a this implementation which performs the reading of dropins folder bundles and updating the bundles.info file.

It is clear that the Equinox P2 provides has an implementation of this functionality and I am attempting to integrate it into the kernel instead of the existing kernel implementation.  But I got to know that Equinox bundles are not made available through Maven repository, thus I am unable to use bundles such as org.eclipse.equinox.p2.reconciler.dropins directly by adding dependencies in the project. 

Hence, can I use tycho for this purpose and if it is possible what steps should I use to configure it?