Re: [tycho-user] Third party jars dependency for RCP application

[Mickael Istria <mistria@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Are these jars OSGi bundles? Do they have p2 metadata available somewhere?
If they are OSGi bundles with p2 metadata, just add the p2 repository to your target-platform.
If they are OSGi bundles without p2 metadata, you should read http://wiki.eclipse.org/Tycho/How_Tos/Dependency_on_pom-first_artifacts . With that, you can create a p2 repository for a given set of bundles without p2 metadata, and consume this repository later with Eclipse/p2/Tycho.
If they are not OSGi bundles, you'll need to either wrap them in OSGi bundles including the lib and re-exporting its packages, or repackage them as OSGi bundles (and build them like regular bundles).

Some interesting links to projects dealing with similar issues:
* https://www.eclipse.org/orbit/
* http://www.eclipse.org/ebr/
* https://github.com/jbosstools/jbosstools-locus

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