[news.eclipse.technology.buckminster] Re: exporting product for Java web

[Thomas Hallgren <thomas@xxxxxxx>]

Hi Thomas,
yes, this is possible. Take a look at the org.eclipse.buckminster.jnlp.product source. The 
buckminster.cspex extension file contains an action that creates the Buckminster JNLP product.

The project in itself is a feature with a product definition (that references the feature).

The action calls on an ant target defined in our PDE plugin. The relevant parts of that looks like this:

<target name="create.eclipse.product">
  <mkdir dir="${sp:action.output}"/>
  <property name="copyJavaLauncher" value="true"/>
  <buckminster.copy todir="${sp:action.output}" overwrite="true">
    <buckminster.filesetgroup value="${fs:action.requirements}"/>
  </buckminster.copy>

  <buckminster.convertSiteToRuntime sitedir="${sp:action.output}"/>

  <buckminster.createProductBase
    productFile="${buckminster.eclipse.productFile}"
    outputDir="${sp:action.output}"
    copyJavaLauncher="${copyJavaLauncher}">
    <buckminster.filesetgroup value="${fs:action.requirements}"/>
  </buckminster.createProductBase>

  <buckminster.multichmod dir="${sp:action.output}">
    <propertyset>
      <propertyref prefix="buckminster.install.permissions."/>
    </propertyset>
  </buckminster.multichmod>
</target>

<target name="create.eclipse.jnlp.product" depends="create.eclipse.product">
  <buckminster.jnlpSiteGenerator sitedir="${sp:action.output}"/>
</target>

So first, a standard product is created with all bells and whistles. After that, the relevant files 
needed for the JNLP launcher are added.

- thomas


Thomas Spiessens wrote:
> Hi,
> in Eclipse it is possible to export a product such that it can be 
> deployed as a web start application 
> (http://help.eclipse.org/help32/index.jsp?topic=/org.eclipse.platform.doc.isv/guide/java_web_start.htm). 
> This is basically a product export with some specific parameters set. As 
> Buckminster already allows us to export a standalone client based on a 
> product file, is it possible to also export the application for web 
> start deployment e.g. by providing the correct parameters in the 
> 'product export' action ?
>
> Thanks,
> Thomas.