Yeah, making the original artifacts OSGI bundles would be the ideal solution.
It may also be the easiest one (moving our current build to Tycho might not be
trivial).
I'll try to evaluate Tycho more in depth later this month and ask the Tycho
guys about it.
Thanks,
Pierre-Arnaud
On 11 janv. 2011, at 16:42, Jesse McConnell wrote:
> my recommendation would be to reach out to the tycho guys for a bit of
> advice on this...I suspect the thing to do is to make the original
> artifacts also osgi bundles, it really isn't that hard with the felix
> maven bundle plugin, but there might be another way they could
> recommend doing it
>
> jesse
>
>
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> jesse mcconnell
> jesse.mcconn...@gmail.com
>
>
>
> On Tue, Jan 11, 2011 at 09:29, Pierre-Arnaud Marcelot <p...@marcelot.net>
> wrote:
>> On 5 janv. 2011, at 20:32, Alex Karasulu wrote:
>>
>>
>> On Wed, Jan 5, 2011 at 9:16 PM, Jesse McConnell <jesse.mcconn...@gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>>
>>>>> Since you have eclipse plugins you ought to
>>>>> build those with maven + tycho and have a similar and sane versioning
>>>>> system.
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>> I talked with Pierre about it. As a side point because of the way the
>>>> build
>>>> in Studio is setup, we're unable at this point to take advantage of IDE
>>>> refactoring since dependencies are on bundle jars rather than on
>>>> projects
>>>> themselves. Do you know if using Maven + Tycho will help with this
>>>> specific
>>>> problem?
>>>> I'm asking this because it might spare some work for us when we refactor
>>>> shared which Studio depends on.
>>>>
>>>
>>> when I am working on the jetty wtp plugin I am able to have all 3
>>> plugins open and refactor between them, I just let m2eclipse import
>>> and do the right thing
>>>
>>> the combination of m2eclipse + maven3 + tycho is quite nice
>>
>> Ahh cool. PAM, and Seelman is this something you might want to try or leave
>> out for later? I just cringe at the thought of your having to manually
>> update Studio again after we reorg shared.
>>
>> Hi Alex, Jesse,
>> The situation is a little more complicated actually as we have a three level
>> story here.
>> Let me recap the situation...
>> Some functionalities of Studio plugins require that we use/extend classes of
>> some Shared and ApacheDS project modules.
>> Unfortunately, those Shared and ApacheDS project modules are not OSGI (or
>> Eclipse) bundles (yet?).
>> In order to solve that problem and to be able to use them in our plugins, we
>> created a specific Eclipse plugin for each required Shared and ApacheDS
>> dependency.
>> I named such a plugin as a "Library Plugin", opposed to our "Studio Code
>> Plugins".
>> A "Library Plugin" simply embeds the jar file of the corresponding Shared or
>> ApacheDS project module and sets a proper MANIFEST.MF file with the correct
>> OSGI and Eclipse instructions (Bundle-SymbolicName, Export-Package,
>> Require-Bundle, etc.).
>> In the end, in your Eclipse workspace, you find yourself having two projects
>> for a single original module:
>> - that original module with the source code ('shared-ldap' for example)
>> - the associated library plugin, based on a constructed (snapshot) jar file
>> of that original module ('org.apache.directory.shared.ldap' for example)
>> Now, when you refactor the source code of the original module,
>> unfortunately, the link between that module and the final "Studio Code
>> Plugin" is lost for Eclipse, because of the use of the jar file in the
>> associated "Library Plugin" between the two.
>> Then the modifications applied on the original module are not applied to the
>> "Studio Code Plugin".
>> I'm not sure Tycho can help us solve this issue, but it does, I'd be happy
>> to update our Studio build to use it...
>> Thoughts?
>> Regards,
>> Pierre-Arnaud
