OK... so forget all my previous questions! I have seen the light! A very interesting thread is the following between Stuart and Marshall-> http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/msg00949.html
Finally I have another question though... when I embed a dependency and I say that it should be treated as transitive, why are the transitive dependencies includes on the Import-Package directive in the manifest but the jars are not included in the bundle and the appropriate additions to the Bundle-Classpath done? Are we assuming that these packages may be provided by another bundle? Is that a safe assumption? Thanks, Alex On Mon, Jul 7, 2008 at 2:52 PM, Alexandre Sauvé <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > So I have figured out the SWT thing... > > http://blambi.blogspot.com/2007/07/maven2-swt-builds.html > > And when you strip the Eclipse installation you will get a win32 directory > under the SWT. You can use that for your SWT dependency! > > Question 1 & 3 have not been solved as of yet! I will keep you updated! > > Thanks, > Alex > > > On Mon, Jul 7, 2008 at 2:10 PM, Alexandre Sauvé <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > >> Hey gang, >> >> I was reading the thread between Stuart and Fabio ( >> http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/msg00896.html) >> regarding Maven Bundle and Eclipse RCP and I have read the documentation >> regarding Eclipse PDE ( >> http://felix.apache.org/site/maven-bundle-plugin-bnd.html). But now I >> have a couple of questions... >> >> 1. So Fabio attached his POM and upon Stuart's suggestion he included the >> RCP dependencies that he required. However Fabio made all the Eclipse >> dependencies at the 'compile' scope. I would have thought these >> dependencies would need to be at the 'provided' scope. Otherwise the embed >> feature of the maven-bundle plugin would try to embed these jars. If I am >> wrong and the dependencies could be 'compile' then does he need to specify >> them all or can he rely on the transitive dependencies? >> >> 2. When you scrape Eclipse using the eclipe:maven-to goal the SWT jar that >> is created at org.eclipse.swt doesn't contain any code. I imagine it is >> like this as swt is platform dependent? Does this mean I have to use the >> 'system' scope and specify the jar? Finally out of curiosity why doesn't >> the SWT jar have the interfaces included? >> >> 3. I am new to RCP so this may be a stupid question. When you generate an >> example RCP plugin with a view in the Manifest file they have the >> Require-Bundle tag where you specify the bundles that you depend on. I >> don't see a way of populating that list with the maven-bundle plugin other >> than in the instruction section. But this means that there will be 2 places >> to specify plugins or bundles we depend on: in the dependencies and in the >> instructions. >> >> Hopefully someone can help this newbie out! >> Thanks, >> Alex >> >> >> >
