Use maven for workspace and application building

[romain.reuillon]

Use maven to dynamically boostrap either the workspace or the application from the cvs, svn, libraries, bundles....

Remaining:

• Convert org.simexplorer.* jar modules to bundle module
• How to import bundle maven modules in Eclipse ? (apparently some problems when trying to import third-party libraries bundles modules)
• How to build a ready to use equinox product ?
  • give this options to jvm

    -vmargs -Dosgi.framework.extensions=org.eclipse.equinox.weaving.hook
    

  • adjust this bundles levels:

    > org.eclipse.core.runtime : level 0
    > org.eclipse.equinox.common : level level 2
    > org.eclipse.equinox.weaving.aspectj level 4
    > org.eclipse.equinox.weaving.caching level 4
    > org.eclipse.equinox.weaving.caching.j9 level 4
    

[romain.reuillon]

Show stoppers are now : - Bundle dependencies instead of package ones. - Add jars in the bundle-classpath.

Note : - The bouncy-castle bundle should not be extracted, it is signed and verified for authenticity at runtime.

[dumoulin]

interesting solution: http://docs.codehaus.org/display/M2ECLIPSE/Tycho+project+overview It allows to build a correct pom.xml from a Manifest file.

[dumoulin]

See also #70

[dumoulin]

See also this project solution: http://geotools.codehaus.org/Add+bundle+information+to+jar+manifest The solution is to have a Manifest that can be edited with eclipse, and this manifest is used by the maven-archiver plugin to build the jar bundle.

[dumoulin]

See also these instructions for a project to work with maven and eclipse: http://www.baka.sk/maven2-build-plugin-howto.html

[dumoulin]

Great improvement with r1962. It stills remain geclipse and libraries bundles that aren't for instance be built with maven

[dumoulin]

This issue is also ennoying when you want to modify an API module, and then rebuild the IDE, because the IDE is built with ant scripts produced by NetBeans.

Maven should be used for the IDE modules. We can easily use the NetBeans archetype for that.

But, we want to have IDE integrated in equinox.

[dumoulin]

Use also http://www.springsource.com/repository/

[dumoulin]

For now, we are able to build bundles for all third-party libraries

[dumoulin]

"How to build a ready to use equinox product?": quite done :-)

[dumoulin]

Now, we've successfully built an equinox product (org.simexplorer.example). We should also consider running the product with nebinox with netbeans in headless mode. By this way, there is no need to configure a config.ini. See these docs:

• http://wiki.netbeans.org/DevFaqNonGuiPlatformApp
• http://blogs.kiyut.com/tonny/2007/08/01/netbeans-platform-parsing-command-line-arguments/

[dumoulin]

r2508 make runtime build working with a JRE and equinox ! Need tests on grid…

[dumoulin]

it works on the grid.