BUILDING ECLIPSE PLUG-INS AND RCP APPLICATIONS WITH TYCHO

Jan Sievers & Tobias Oberlies , SAP AG

Part 1: Introduction – 1:00 pm – 1:30 pm Tycho Overview

Part 2: Hands-on Tutorial – 1:30 pm – 4:00 pm Building an e4 RCP application with Tycho

Tutorial Outline

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Part 1: Introduction

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A manifest-first way to build... Eclipse plug-ins/OSGi bundles Features p2 Repositories RCP Applications

...with Maven

What is Tycho?

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Tycho provides a maven build extension and several maven build plug-ins

Maven drives the build process using the project object model (pom.xml)

Tycho can be combined with other Maven plug-ins QA tools: FindBugs, Checkstyle, PMD, ... Code generators ...

Tycho integrates with Maven Follow conventions for build output folder Inject OSGi dependencies into Maven dependency model Inject source folders and compile class-path

Tycho and Maven

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Tycho re-uses PDE metadata files OSGi bundle manifest

(META-INF/MANIFEST.MF) build.properties feature.xml site.xml/category.xml *.product files *.target files

You can continue using PDE UI tools

Tycho and PDE

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Tycho is a p2 artifact/metadata consumer and producer Resolves dependencies against p2

repositories Produces p2 repositories

Think of Tycho as a „Maven build frontend with a p2 repository backend“

Tycho and p2

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Tycho is a Technology incubator project at Eclipse Sources are at git.eclipse.org

and mirrored to github Documentation: wiki.eclipse.org/Tycho Mailing lists: tycho-user, tycho-dev Issue tracker: Bugzilla

Tycho 0.14.1 is available from Maven central

Where is Tycho?

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Committers Igor Fedorenko (Sonatype Inc.), Lead Tobias Oberlies (SAP AG) Jan Sievers (SAP AG)

Various contributions Contributor guide

Users EGit, m2eclipse, CDT, CBI, JBoss tools,

Sigasi ... ~45 threads/month on tycho-users

Contributors & Users

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Part 2: Hands-on Tutorial

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Step by step we will set up a Tycho build for an e4 RCP application: Create a Hello World RCP plugin Add unit tests Add a feature Create a p2 repository Build a product

Hands-on Exercises

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Everything you need for the exercises is provided on the USB stick we handed out

The exercise instructions are fully self-contained

Start with tutorial/README.html

Hands-On Setup

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Maven/Tycho Tycho - still good, bad or ugly ? Get ready to fight your technical debt, with Tycho, Sonar, and

Jacoco M2Eclipse: The collaboration of the Maven & Eclipse Platforms

p2 A gentle introduction to p2 Provisioning & Migration with p2: Case study - The Good, the Bad

and the Ugly

ALM Best practices for using Hudson as part of your Agile strategy How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Build

e4 (in parallel) Creating Rich Clients with Eclipse RCP 4.x The Eclipse 4 Application Platform explained

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