Re: [tycho-user] Need info about mirroring maven artifacts in a p2 mirro

["Tom Bryan (tombry)" <tombry@xxxxxxxxx>]

I don't remember your original use case, but is the problem you're hitting
similar to this user's situation?
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/35346113/using-third-party-libraries-in-
eclipse-rcp-tycho-app/
I think that my reply on that thread explains the current state of affairs
and the problem bridging between Eclipse and Tycho on one hand and normal
Maven artifacts and dependencies on the other.

The problem is that even if you could automatically convert a JAR to an
Eclipse plug-in and add it to the Maven repository, you're still going to
have to reference that specific plug-in in your Eclipse plug-in that uses
that library, right?  Are you just hoping to create some automation that
follows the Maven dependency tree for some specific artifact and then
creates an equivalent set of Eclipse "library plug-ins" with the correct
transitive references?  Once you do that, your developers will still need
all of those plug-ins in their local development environments, right?

Tycho is great for handling Eclipse bundles, but as soon as you try to
include a complex third party (JAR) library into your RCP application,
you hit this problem.  It would be great if Tycho users could help
articulate what a workable solution would look like.  That way, maybe
someone can solve that problem so that we don't have a bunch of different
software teams having to work around this disconnect between the Maven
world and the Eclipse-tycho world.

---Tom

On 3/8/16, 12:53 PM, "tycho-user-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxx on behalf of David M.
Karr" <tycho-user-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxx on behalf of
davidmichaelkarr@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

>A while ago, I asked questions in here (and other channels) about my
>Eclipse plugin build, using Tycho, which was "hard-storing" some maven
>artifacts in the project instead of specifying them "declaratively".  I
>tried for quite a while to figure out how to specify them as Maven
>dependencies, but I never got it to work.
>
>I started to understand that the only way to get this to work was to be
>able to access those artifacts in a p2 repository, so I can specify
>those dependencies in my target platform.  The administrator of the
>Nexus server that I use has been working on this, but he's telling me
>that the artifacts mirrored in this repository have to be OSGi bundles.
>A "plain" Maven artifact jar won't work.
>
>I'm now understanding that it's straightforward to "augment" an existing
>Maven artifact with the appropriate META-INF/MANIFEST.MF file to have it
>be recognized and properly used as an OSGi bundle.  This can be done at
>build time with the "maven-bundle-plugin", but Nexus also has the
>ability (I don't know the details yet) to semi-automatically add
>manifest info to artifacts so they can be used in a p2 repo.
>
>However, I'm also hearing that even if the artifact is a valid OSGi
>bundle, it won't properly work in a p2 repo unless it can somehow see
>"features".  What do I have to do to plain Maven artifact jars to make
>them usable in an Eclipse plugin build as repository targets in a target
>platform specification?
>
>_______________________________________________
>tycho-user mailing list
>tycho-user@xxxxxxxxxxx
>To change your delivery options, retrieve your password, or unsubscribe
>from this list, visit
>https://dev.eclipse.org/mailman/listinfo/tycho-user
>