Tips & Tricks for Maven Tycho
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Here are 3 sentences summarizing the key points from the document: The document provides 7 tips for developing OSGi applications with Eclipse and Tycho including adopting a modular structure with bundles and features, generating version qualifiers with Git, using target platforms for dependency management, leveraging Maven repositories for modular builds and aggregation, avoiding overuse of the Maven parent POM, and setting up build chains that include unit testing. It encourages learning about Maven concepts and adopting best practices for project structure when building OSGi applications.
Tips & Tricks for Maven Tycho
- 1. Seven Tips and Tricks for developing OSGi applications with Eclipse and Tycho Gunnar Wagenknecht (@guw)
- 3. parent targets products aggregate p2 repo Adopt a Structure / /bundles /features /releng POM POM POM POM POM POM POM POM POM
- 4. Adopt a Structure product.git module.git module.git /releng module.git module.git module.git releng.git Maven Repo
- 5. Generate .qualifier with Git <plugin> … <artifactId>tycho-packaging-plugin</artifactId> <dependencies> <dependency> <groupId>org.eclipse.tycho.extras</groupId> <artifactId>tycho-buildtimestamp-jgit</artifactId> <version>${tycho-extras.version}</version> </dependency> </dependencies> <configuration> <timestampProvider>jgit</timestampProvider> <format>'v'yyyyMMdd-HHmm</format> <additionalFileSets>…</additionalFileSets> </configuration> </plugin>
- 6. Use target platforms for dependency management.
- 7. Use Maven repositories for modular builds and aggregation.
- 8. Don’t put everything into the Maven parent.
- 10. Thank you! tweet @guw or mail to gunnar@eclipse.org