[news.eclipse.technology.equinox] Re: how to build equinox project outsi

[Chris Aniszczyk <zx@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

John G wrote:
> Hello,
> We currently build and deploy by hand a number of headless, standalone 
> equinox projects that work together for our application. I am trying to 
> automate these multiple equinox application builds, and was wondering 
> what others use to do this?
> I have attempted to use ant with Hudson, but wonder if there is an 
> easier way.

I'd recommend using something like Hudson with PDE Build (what Eclipse 
uses to build bundles). I would create a product definition using PDE 
and add my bundles to that (most likely would group them in features, 
but that's another discussion and depends more on how you want to 
organize things within your domain). Once I have a product definition, 
you can use PDE Build to build and deploy that. PDE Build will probably 
build all the zips and p2 repositories for your bundles.

A good sample of how to do that is here:
     http://www.vogella.de/articles/EclipsePDEBuild/article.html

If you need more specific help, feel free to email me.

Oh also, are you bundles targeted for a device, desktop or a server?

Cheers,

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