On 29 August 2011 14:05, Benson Margulies <[email protected]> wrote:
> Due to an interlocking collection of missing features of Tycho and > M2E, I find myself wanting to import the output of the > maven-bundle-plugin into Eclipse Indigo as a binary project. > > Unfortunately, doing the obvious (importing it as a binary project) > isn't working for me: eclipse is ignoring the actual binary content of > the plugin. I appreciate that this isn't the responsibility of the > bundle department, but I thought that perhaps someone here might have > been down this path. > > The output of the bundle plugin has a manifest with: > > Bundle-SymbolicName: org.apache.maven.doxia.ide.dependencies > Bundle-Version: 1.0.0.SNAPSHOT > > No Bundle-ClassPath, so defaults to '.' (right?), and a ton of classes. > > Imported into Eclipse with the PDE import binary package, and it > 'sees' only META-INF, not the ton of classes. > > I could throw it into the 'plugins' directory of my eclipse as a last > resort, but I was hoping that someone could help me make this work as > seemingly intended. > sounds like a bug in Eclipse/PDE - I usually avoid importing bundles as binary projects and instead use the target platform support: http://help.eclipse.org/indigo/index.jsp?topic=%2Forg.eclipse.pde.doc.user%2Fguide%2Ftools%2Fpreference_pages%2Ftarget_platform.htm that also avoids the issue of littering the plugins folder with temporary bundles PS. you might also want to take a look at bndtools (http://bndtools.org/) as an alternative to PDE -- Cheers, Stuart
