Building Eclipse Plugins and RCP Applications with Tycho - ECE 2012

BUILDING ECLIPSE PLUG-INS
AND RCP APPLICATIONS
WITH TYCHO
Jan Sievers & Tobias Oberlies , SAP AG

Tutorial Outline
 Part 1: Introduction – 9:00 – 9:30
 Tycho Overview

 Part 2: Hands-on Tutorial – 9:30 – 12:30
 Building an e4 RCP application with Tycho

Copyright (c) 2012 SAP AG and others. Licensed under EPL v1.0 23.10.2012

Part 1: Introduction


What is Tycho?
 A manifest-first way to build...
 Eclipse plug-ins/OSGi bundles
 Features
 p2 Repositories
 RCP Applications
...with Maven


Tycho and Maven
 Tycho provides a maven build extension and several
maven build plug-ins
 Maven drives the build process using the project object
model (pom.xml)
 Tycho can be combined with other Maven plug-ins
 QA tools: FindBugs, Checkstyle, PMD, ...
 Code generators
 ...
 Tycho integrates with Maven
 Follow conventions for build output folder
 Inject OSGi dependencies into Maven dependency model
 Inject source folders and compile class-path

Tycho and PDE
 Tycho re-uses PDE metadata files
 OSGi bundle manifest (META-INF/MANIFEST.MF)
 build.properties
 feature.xml
 site.xml/category.xml
 *.product files
 *.target files
 You can continue using PDE UI tools


Tycho and p2
 Tycho is a p2 artifact/metadata consumer and
producer
 Resolves dependencies against p2 repositories
 Produces p2 repositories
 Think of Tycho as a „Maven build frontend
with a p2 repository backend“


Tycho and CBI
 Common Build Infrastructure (CBI) is an effort to build
the eclipse platform with Hudson and Tycho
 Make building eclipse from scratch and on any
machine easy („mvn clean install“)
 Foster contributions
 Prerequisite for long-term support program
 Eclipse platform build to switch to Tycho soon
 Related talks:
 CBI lessons learned
 OSGi Users‘ Forum tooling workshop on Friday

Where is Tycho?
 Tycho is a Technology incubator project at Eclipse
 Sources are at git.eclipse.org
and mirrored to github
 Documentation: wiki.eclipse.org/Tycho
 Mailing lists: tycho-user, tycho-dev
 Issue tracker: Bugzilla
 Tycho 0.16.0 is available from Maven central


Contributors & Users
 Committers
 Igor Fedorenko (Sonatype Inc.), Lead
 Tobias Oberlies (SAP AG)
 Jan Sievers (SAP AG)
 Various contributions
 Contributor guide
 Users
 EGit, m2eclipse, CDT, CBI, JBoss tools, Sigasi ...
 Active mailing list tycho-users
 Tycho questions on stackoverflow.com


Part 2: Hands-on Tutorial


Hands-on Exercises
 Step by step we will set up a Tycho build for an
e4 RCP application:
 Create a Hello World RCP plugin
 Add unit tests
 Add a feature
 Create a p2 repository
 Build a product
 Use a .target file


Hands-On Setup
 Everything you need for the exercises is provided
on the USB stick we handed out
 The exercise instructions are fully self-contained
 Start with tutorial/README.html


Related Sessions
 Tycho
 Tycho adoption: Lessons learned, tips and tricks from
the 1st line of front
 Putting P2 into practice: Releasing independent
products from a shared code base
 Beware: Testing RCP Applications in Tycho can cause
Serious Harm to your Brain
 A journey with Target Platforms
 Maven
 m2e, an exercise in mixing oil and water
 Kick your Java EE development a notch with m2e-wtp

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