hmmm Tycho actually looks pretty good, buuuut.. "Tycho is a set of Maven plugins and extensions for building Eclipse plugins and OSGI bundles with Maven. "
so it looks like a build tool? whereas my current pain is trying to get eclipse to link source to my existing bundles so ctrl-click just works, which is more of a me not grokking the eclipse mojo problem. maybe other people don't think it hard at all to wrap existing libraries in a bundle and build from source and it's just me... thanks though! On 13 April 2010 05:29, Erlend Hamnaberg <[email protected]> wrote: > Have you looked at Tycho? Should be available from Sonatype.org > > On Apr 12, 2010 10:36 AM, "Matthew Kerle" <[email protected]> wrote: > > ok, from what I've seen so far, OSGi seems pretty smart (hot-reloading of > classes at runtime? sexy!). But trying to bully eclipse into helping me > while I develop OSGi plugins (not for a eclipse, 3rd-party app using OSGi to > manage dependencies) is just a nightmare... > > What's currently making me swear? well the project we're > on<http://www.cohga.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=9&Itemid=26>uses > a *ton* of open source libraries (Acegi, geotools, etc), so naturally I > want to look at the source , but you can't just right-click edit source > bundle and set the source jar, no, it's "non-modifiable". Apparently the way > you're meant to add source is to re-build the 3rd party project as an > eclipse plugin from scratch with "export source" enabled. which is great if > all your dependencies are themselves plugins that have carefully had source > bundles built, then it just works. but if they're just normal libraries then > God alone (and the eclipse PDE authors) know how to do (Googling > <http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&ei=S9DCS4mIMNX9nAf26umXCg&sa=X&oi=spell&resnum=0&ct=result&cd=1&ved=0CA0QBSgA&q=eclipse+plugin+source+attachment+non+modifiable&spell=1>for > this problem gets few hits, mainly forum posts with people asking the same > question with no reply, and one out of date post where one of the PDE > authors laughs that this is the only request in 2years... ) > > this makes me a sad panda because when I try to find out what a > FeatureSource is, versus a SimpleFeature or even a DataSource (org.geotools, > not javax.sql), I get nothing and have to open the source in textpad, and > then I swear... (and I don't like swearing) > > </rant> > > anyone have any experience with this? > > follow-up: most useful forum > post<http://dev.eclipse.org/newslists/news.eclipse.tools.jdt/msg10552.html>still > not useful. > > thumbs down to eclipse for making this hard on purpose :-( > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "The Java Posse" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]<javaposse%[email protected]> > . > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/javaposse?hl=en. > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "The Java Posse" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]<javaposse%[email protected]> > . > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/javaposse?hl=en. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "The Java Posse" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/javaposse?hl=en.
