[jwt-dev] JWT build with Dash Athena builder status

[Mickael Istria <mickael.istria@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi all,

I could spend some time last week working on the use of Dash Athena 
builder for JWT.
As you may know, this builder is aimed to be the "standard" builder for 
Eclipse projects, handling all steps to produce a delivery conforming to 
Eclipse requirements. This is the future!

I could get it successfully building JWT Master zip, and JWT 
update-site, with pack200, p2 and signing. It is a quite powerful build 
since you don't have to maintain custom tasks nor an Eclipse base to 
build: you can simply define your requirements to build and the Eclipse 
build base is created at each build. For example, instead of maintaining 
an Eclipse for JWT, there is only to specify in build.properties:

eclipse.SDK.url=file:/home/mistria/eclipse-SDK-3.5-linux-gtk.tar.gz
eclipse.SDK.file=eclipse-SDK-3.5-linux-gtk.tar.gz
dependencyURLs=
repositoryURLs=http://download.eclipse.org/releases/galileo/
featureIDsToInstall=org.eclipse.emf+org.eclipse.gef+org.eclipse.m2m.atl

And, instead of maintaining custom Ant targets, you simply have to 
maintain this list:
build.steps=buildUpdate,buildTests,generateDigests,test,publish,cleanup

Nice, isn't it ?

I'm still struggling with tests, but we are not so far. Moreover, Athena 
is not yet fully mature, so that it is not ready to handle Orbit jars 
for instance.
Then, things are going ahead, but neither Athena builder nor the 
associated JWT conf are mature enough to switch to it now.

I'll try to stay in touch with those topics and keep an eye on it, and 
tell you of my progress on it. If someone else wants to work on it, I'd 
be glad to help!

Regards,
Mickael