Re: [tycho-user] Newb question

["V. Mark Lehky" <mark.lehky@xxxxxxxxx>]

I kinda suspected the answer was going to be something like the below. 
Sounds like I still got a ways to go. Will let you know how I manage, 
probably on Monday.

Thank You.


On 14-03-07 03:56 PM, Igor Fedorenko wrote:
> Tycho does not like pure Maven dependencies, it very much prefers OSGi
> bundles and Eclipse artifacts from P2 repositories. This applies to both
> projects that you build ("executor.jar" and "server.jar", in you case)
> and artifacts available from remote Maven repositories. You need to
> convert you pure-Maven projects and dependencies to OSGi bundles and
> make them available from a P2 repository before you'll be able to use
> them from eclipse-plugin projects.
>
> Usually I setup a separate project for my non-P2 stuff and use
> maven-bundle-plugin to generate OSGi metadata for me, then use
> pomDependencies=consider trick explain in [1] to make the "OSGi-ified"
> artifacts visible to the Tycho build. You can see how this is setup in
> m2e build, for example [2] (the pure-maven stuff is in m2e-maven-runtime
> subdirectory).
>
> [1] http://wiki.eclipse.org/Tycho/How_Tos/Dependency_on_pom-first_artifacts
> [2] http://git.eclipse.org/c/m2e/m2e-core.git/
>
>
>
> --
> Regards,
> Igor
>
> On 2014-03-07, 18:37, V. Mark Lehky wrote:
> > Hello all.
> >
> > I have an eclipse-plugin project that builds successfully using ant. I
> > would like to move this project to Maven (plus do a little cleanup of
> > the existing code); some Internet link pointed me towards Tycho.
> > I have gone through the EclipseCon Tycho Tutorial, and that seems to
> > be working fine for me. There is, however, one thing that is not clear
> > to me: dependencies to other projects.
> >
> > My entire project consists of three Eclipse projects:
> > 1. "executor.jar"
> > 2. "server.jar"
> > 3. and the plugin
> >
> > I have a parent pom.xml which lists the above three modules as:
> > 1. packaging = jar
> > 2. packaging = jar
> > 3. packaging = eclipse-plugin
> > I defined all the Tycho specific stuff in the plugin pom, not the
> > parent pom.
> >
> > Both the server.jar and my plugin depends on the "executor.jar" plus
> > one other jar from a Maven repo. In the server.jar defining the
> > dependencies in the pom is really easy, and that builds just fine.
> >
> > How do I do this in the plugin? From what I have read on the intranets
> > so far, you do _not_ define the dependency in the pom, you _only_
> > define it in the the MANIFEST.MF? So far I tried just pointing to
> > ../executor/target/executor-1.0.0-SNAPSHOT.jar but the mvn build fails
> > to find this. Also, this does not seem very Maven-like. The normal
> > Eclipse build also fails to find this.
> >  From some answers on stackoverflow I got the impression that I should
> > copy the two dependent jars into the root of the project, and just
> > point to them there. Is this the correct way of doing this?
> >
> > If it helps, my entire project is here:
> > http://sourceforge.net/p/genieos/code-0/HEAD/tree/trunk/
> >
> > TIA for any help.