At Cape Clear we use PDEBuild, controlled by CruiseControl driven Ant scripts to build our Eclipse features. As Oisín Hurley pointed out recently it has got a steep learning curve but once it is up and running it allows development teams to contribute to
This plugin for Maven 2 is based on the BND tool from Peter Kriens. The way BND works is by treating your project as a big collection of classes (e.g., project code, dependencies, and the class path). The way you create a bundle with BND is to tell it the content of the bundle's JAR file as a subset of the available classes. This plugin wraps BND to make it work specifically with the Maven 2 project structure and to provide it with reasonable default behavior for Maven 2 projects.
Since the 1.4.0 release, this plugin also aims to automate OBR (OSGi Bundle Repository) management. It helps manage a local OBR for your local Maven repository, and also supports remote OBRs for bundle distribution. The plug-in automatically computes bundle capabilities and requirements, using a combination of Bindex and Maven metadata.
Better Builds with Maven is written by Vincent Massol, Jason van Zyl and other key contributors of the Maven community and combines detailed explanations and code examples to walk you through improving your software development process with Maven 2.0.
Summary Eclipse offers the possibility to build plug-ins automatically outside the Eclipse IDE, which is called "headless build". Eclipse itself is built headless and since Eclipse is an assembly of plug-ins, this feature is also available for any other p
Apache Maven ist mehr als nur ein Build-Tool. Richtig eingesetzt kann es helfen, Projekte zu managen und die Entwicklung zu unterstützen. Dieser Artikel erklärt das optimale Vorgehen.
Buildr is a build system for Java applications in Ruby Maven compatible * A simple way to specify projects, and build large projects out of smaller sub-projects. * Pre-canned tasks that require the least amount of configuration, keeping the build script DRY and simple. * Compiling, copying and filtering resources, JUnit/TestNG test cases, APT source code generation, Javadoc etc * A dependency mechanism that only builds what has changed since the last release. * A drop-in replacement for Maven 2.0, Buildr uses the same file layout, artifact specifications, local and remote repositories. * All your Ant tasks belong to us! Anything you can do with Ant, you can do with Buildr. * No overhead for building “plugins” or configuration. Just write new tasks or functions. * Buildr is Ruby all the way down. No one-off task is too demanding when you write code using variables, functions and objects. * Simple to upgrade to new versions. * fast