Hi, here's an issue I've been fighting for the last 5 business days with every approach taken hitting the same wall. I checked the documentation, did the googling, asked friends and didn't get any further. I sincerely hope to get some help here.
I have a set of Eclipse plugin projects, which are to be moved to Maven-managed building and packaging. Initially the future looked bright as I found a perfectly suited article at eclipse.org: Building Eclipse Plugins with Maven 2 http://www.eclipse.org/articles/article.php?file=Article-Eclipse-and-Maven2/index.html Took a day or two to actually find out how to put the scraps of information there together and install the custom MOJOs. Once I did that, Eclipse project files were perfectly generated by 'mvn eclipse:eclipse', all projects built in Eclipse but... not in Maven. Even though Maven knew that the project depends on the org.eclipse.ui package in the MANIFEST file (and complained if that package was not in the repository), it still reported missing dependencies once the packages were available to it in its repo. Back at the drawing board, I found an existing MOJO for Maven: Eclipse PDE Maven Plugin http://mojo.codehaus.org/pde-maven-plugin/ and I also found out about the PDE option for the eclipse:eclipse goal: http://maven.apache.org/plugins/maven-eclipse-plugin/eclipse-mojo.html#pde This brought me to the following situation: /plugins/ /eclipse-rcp-common/ /src/ /build.properties /META-INF/ /... /pom.xml /vnc-client/ /... /pom.xml /pom.xml The "super pom" in the 'plugins' directory looks as follows: <project xmlns="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0"; xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"; xsi:schemaLocation="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0 http://maven.apache.org/maven-v4_0_0.xsd";> <modelVersion>4.0.0</modelVersion> <groupId>nl.collaboratory.client</groupId> <artifactId>client-plugin-container</artifactId> <packaging>pom</packaging> <name>Collaboratory Client Container</name> <version>1.0-SNAPSHOT</version> <description>A Simple Plugin PDE Example</description> <build> <resources> <resource> <directory>${basedir}</directory> <includes> <include>plugin.xml</include> <include>plugin.properties</include> </includes> <targetPath>/</targetPath> </resource> </resources> <plugins> <plugin> <artifactId>maven-eclipse-plugin</artifactId> <version>2.4</version> <executions> <execution> <id>synchronise-eclipse</id> <phase>validate</phase> <goals> <goal>eclipse</goal> </goals> <inherited>true</inherited> <configuration> <pde>true</pde> </configuration> </execution> </executions> <configuration> <pde>true</pde> </configuration> </plugin> <plugin> <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId> <artifactId>maven-compiler-plugin</artifactId> <configuration> <source>1.6</source> <target>1.6</target> </configuration> </plugin> <plugin> <groupId>org.codehaus.mojo</groupId> <artifactId>pde-maven-plugin</artifactId> <extensions>true</extensions> <configuration> <buildProperties> <javacSource>1.6</javacSource> <javacTarget>1.6</javacTarget> </buildProperties> <eclipseInstall>/home/sonic/tmp/eclipse</eclipseInstall> </configuration> <executions> <execution> <id>clean-pde</id> <phase>clean</phase> <goals> <goal>clean</goal> </goals> </execution> </executions> </plugin> </plugins> </build> <dependencies> <dependency> <groupId>org.eclipse.ecf</groupId> <artifactId>core</artifactId> <version>0.8.8</version> <scope>compile</scope> </dependency> <dependency> <groupId>org.eclipse.ecf</groupId> <artifactId>discovery</artifactId> <version>0.8.8</version> <scope>compile</scope> </dependency> <dependency> <groupId>org.eclipse.ecf</groupId> <artifactId>presence</artifactId> <version>0.8.8</version> <scope>compile</scope> </dependency> <dependency> <groupId>org.eclipse.ecf</groupId> <artifactId>provider</artifactId> <version>0.8.8</version> <scope>compile</scope> </dependency> <dependency> <groupId>org.eclipse.ecf</groupId> <artifactId>ui</artifactId> <version>0.8.8</version> <scope>compile</scope> </dependency> <dependency> <groupId>nl.collaboratory</groupId> <artifactId>admininterface</artifactId> <version>1.0.0</version> <scope>compile</scope> </dependency> </dependencies> <modules> <module>eclipse-rcp-common</module> <module>vnc-client</module> </modules> </project> While the pom for the eclipse-rcp-common plugin is: <project xmlns="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0"; xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"; xsi:schemaLocation="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0 http://maven.apache.org/maven-v4_0_0.xsd";> <parent> <artifactId>client-plugin-container</artifactId> <groupId>nl.collaboratory.client</groupId> <version>1.0-SNAPSHOT</version> </parent> <modelVersion>4.0.0</modelVersion> <groupId>nl.collaboratory.client</groupId> <artifactId>eclipse-rcp-common</artifactId> <packaging>zip</packaging> <name>Common Elements Plugin</name> <version>1.0-SNAPSHOT</version> <description>A Simple Plugin PDE Example</description> <dependencies> <dependency> <groupId>org.springframework</groupId> <artifactId>spring</artifactId> <version>2.0.7</version> <scope>compile</scope> </dependency> <dependency> <groupId>org.acegisecurity</groupId> <artifactId>acegi-security</artifactId> <version>1.0.5</version> <scope>compile</scope> </dependency> <dependency> <groupId>commons-lang</groupId> <artifactId>commons-lang</artifactId> <version>2.3</version> <scope>compile</scope> </dependency> </dependencies> </project> Running "mvn eclipse:eclipse" in the eclipse-rcp-common directory generates appropriate eclipse project files with all required dependencies: .classpath ... <classpathentry kind="lib" path="spring-context-1.2.9.jar"/> <classpathentry kind="lib" path="spring-remoting-1.2.9.jar"/> <classpathentry kind="lib" path="spring-core-1.2.9.jar"/> ... .project ... <link> <name>spring-remoting-1.2.9.jar</name> <type>1</type> <location>/home/sonic/.m2/repository/org/springframework/spring-remoting/1.2.9/spring-remoting-1.2.9.jar</location> </link> ... (/home/sonic/.m2/repository/ is the folder with the Maven repository and all libraries are there) The MANIFEST.MF also contains all required dependencies: ... Bundle-ClassPath: ., commons-codec-1.3.jar, commons-collections-3.1.jar, commons-lang-2.3.jar, commons-logging-1.0.4.jar, log4j-1.2.9.jar, admininterface-1.0.0.jar, acegi-security-1.0.5.jar, core-0.8.8.jar, ... As a result, the project builds perfectly within Eclipse. Not so with Maven. The PDE plugin for Maven works by generating a build.xml file and running Ant against it. The appropriate path part of the build.xml file reads: .... <pathelement path="${build.result.folder}/../eclipse-rcp-common_1.0.0.SNAPSHOT/commons-logging-1.0.4.jar"/> <pathelement path="log4j-1.2.9.jar"/> <pathelement path="${build.result.folder}/../eclipse-rcp-common_1.0.0.SNAPSHOT/log4j-1.2.9.jar"/> <pathelement path="admininterface-1.0.0.jar"/> ... Which results in the following absolute paths (excerpt from Ant verbose): dropping /home/sonic/tmp/test-plugin-development/plugins/eclipse-rcp-common/acegi-security-1.0.5.jar from path as it doesn't exist dropping /home/sonic/tmp/test-plugin-development/plugins/eclipse-rcp-common/target/pdeTemp/plugins/eclipse-rcp-common_1.0.0.SNAPSHOT/acegi-security-1.0.5.jar from path as it doesn't exist dropping /home/sonic/tmp/test-plugin-development/plugins/eclipse-rcp-common/core-0.8.8.jar from path as it doesn't exist dropping /home/sonic/tmp/test-plugin-development/plugins/eclipse-rcp-common/target/pdeTemp/plugins/eclipse-rcp-common_1.0.0.SNAPSHOT/core-0.8.8.jar from path as it doesn't exist The path: /home/sonic/tmp/test-plugin-development/plugins/... is the correct path to the 'plugins' directory I mentioned in the beginnig. All's well until this point. The 'target' folder is there as well, but inside it there is NO pdeTemp folder, let alone any jars in it. It seems that the ant script expects the jars to be copied locally into the projects folder, while they're not! The documentation for the "pde" option of the "eclipse:eclipse" goal reads: Additionally it copies all libraries to a project local directory and references them instead of referencing the files in the local Maven repository. NO! There are no jars being copied to a "project local directory", they're referenced from the repository as excerpts of eclipse related files above show. Is that an "eclipse:eclipse" bug? Does anyone have a working setup of Maven + Eclipse PDE and could share some expertise with me? -- Michael Paluchowski [sonic|redmagic] [EMAIL PROTECTED] _________________________________ www.nethut.pl _ www.buggybrain.com _ I do not fear computers. I fear the lack of them. / Isaac Asimov --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
