Hi,
I am using Maven to build an Eclipse application. There is one artifact which contains the stub application (basically an empty eclipse with the bare minimum required to start eclipse, without any of our custom plugins). That stub's POM has a couple of profiles which add dependencies to the Eclipse plugins that I want to ship. These plugin artifacts then in turn have Maven dependencies on other plugins (both in-house and third party) which they require. When the maven build process runs, it first packages all the dependencies using Felix' maven-bundle-plugin. Then it builds the stub application, where it uses the maven-eclipse-plugin's install-plugins goal to install the dependencies of the stub (i.e. our actual application plugins and their dependencies) into the empty Eclipse. Our goal is to have a complete eclipse directory, which can be packaged using the maven-assembly-plugin to be shipped. However this does not work, because only the direct dependencies of the stub are installed, not their transitive dependencies. The transitive dependencies are also not listed as dependencies when running mvn dependency:tree. It seems that the maven-bundle-plugin somehow keeps an artifact with packaging "bundle" from reporting its transitive dependencies. When I change the packaging to "jar", the dependencies show up, but the bundles are no longer packaged correctly, even when having the maven-bundle-plugin generate the manifest there are issues. While looking for a solution I found numerous posts on this mailing list and in other sources where the Embed-* features (Embed-Dependency, Embed-Transitive, etc) are said to be the solution. However none of those posts really match my scenario - I don't want the dependencies to be embedded in the jar file, I only want them to be visible as transitive dependencies in Maven so that they get picked up by the maven-eclipse-plugin as well as other Maven plugins. Is there a solution for this issue? Or how do other people solve this issue? I can't imagine that I'm the only one who builds eclipse applications with a combination of the maven-bundle-plugin and the maven-eclipse-plugin. Thanks and regards, Thomas
