slides from the EclipseCon 2012 tutorial "Building Eclipse Plugins and RCP applications with Tycho"

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

2. Tutorial Outline
 Part 1: Introduction – 1:00 pm – 1:30 pm
 Tycho Overview
 Part 2: Hands-on Tutorial – 1:30 pm – 4:00 pm
 Building an e4 RCP application with Tycho
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3. Part 1: Introduction
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4. What is Tycho?
 A manifest-first way to build...
 Eclipse plug-ins/OSGi bundles
 Features
 p2 Repositories
 RCP Applications
...with Maven
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5. 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
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6. 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
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7. 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“
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8. 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 0.14.1 is available from Maven central
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9. 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 ...
 ~45 threads/month on tycho-users
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10. Part 2: Hands-on Tutorial
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11. 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
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12. 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
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13. Related Sessions
 Maven/Tycho
 Tycho - still good, bad or ugly ?
 Get ready to fight your technical debt, with Tycho, Sonar, and Jacoco
 M2Eclipse: The collaboration of the Maven & Eclipse Platforms
 p2
 A gentle introduction to p2
 Provisioning & Migration with p2: Case study - The Good, the Bad and the
Ugly
 ALM
 Best practices for using Hudson as part of your Agile strategy
 How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Build
 e4
 (in parallel) Creating Rich Clients with Eclipse RCP 4.x
 The Eclipse 4 Application Platform explained
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