BUILDING ECLIPSE PLUG-INS AND RCP APPLICATIONS WITH TYCHO

Tobias Oberlies & Jan Sievers, SAP AG25.03.2013

Part 1: Introduction 9:00 am – 9:30 am Tycho Overview

Part 2: Hands-on Tutorial 9:30 am – 12:00 pm Building an e4 RCP application with Tycho

Tutorial Outline

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Part 1: Introduction

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Tycho is a Maven extension for building Eclipse artifacts Eclipse plug-ins/OSGi bundles Features p2 repositories RCP applications/Eclipse distributions

What is Tycho?

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Related Technologies

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Maven

Plug-in Developme

nt Environmen

t (PDE)

Equinox p2

Tycho

Maven and Tycho

mvn clean install Packaging types for

standard artifacts Tests run in build Customize build

with additional goals (FindBugs, code generators, …)

mvn clean installeclipse-plugin,

eclipse-feature, …eclipse-test-pluginMost Maven

plugins also work in Tycho projects

Maven Tycho

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Maven and Tycho (cont.)

Dependencies declared in pom.xml

Dependencies declared in MANIFEST.MF, …

Maven Tycho

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Maven extension for OSGi/Eclipse artifacts

PDE and Tycho

MANIFEST.MF, feature.xml, build.properties, ...

Build path according to OSGi manifest

JUnit plug-in tests

Tycho reads PDE source files

JDT compiler with OSGi visibility rules

eclipse-test-plugin

Plug-in Development Environment (PDE)

Tycho

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Headless build for PDE projects

p2 and Tycho

p2 repositories for installation & update of bundles

“Publish” artifacts to p2 repositories

Installer (“director”)

p2 repositories for resolving build dependencies

Builds p2 repositories with build artifacts

tycho-director-plugin

Equinox p2 Tycho

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Maven front-end for p2

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 Contributor guide: wiki.eclipse.org/Tycho/

Contributor_Guide

Tycho 0.17.0 is available from Maven central

Where is Tycho?

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

Various contributions Users

Eclipse platform and many other Eclipse projects “Common Build Infrastructure” (CBI): Services for

Tycho adoption at eclipse.org Commercial users: JBoss tools, Sigasi, SAP AG, …

Contributors & Users

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Part 2: Hands-on Tutorial

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Create and build an Eclipse 4 RCP application Create a plug-in with a sample Eclipse 4

RCP application Add a unit test Add a feature Create a p2 repository Build a distribution with the RCP application

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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Tycho BoF Mon 8:00 pm, Seaport Ballroom B

Presentations from Tycho users Real World: Tycho Tue 5:00 pm, Cityview

Ballroom 2 From Custom Maven Builds to Tycho

Wed 10:30 am, Back Bay Automating the consumption of Eclipse for int

ernal use Thu 1:30 pm, Harborview Ballroom 2

Comparison of build technologies Bundle Building Wed 1:30 pm, Beacon Hill 1

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