Slides of the EclipseCon 2013 session "Building Eclipse Plugins and RCP applications with Tycho"

1. BUILDING ECLIPSE PLUG-INS
AND RCP APPLICATIONS
WITH TYCHO
25.03.2013 Tobias Oberlies & Jan Sievers, SAP AG

2. Tutorial Outline
 Part 1: Introduction 9:00 am – 9:30 am
 Tycho Overview
 Part 2: Hands-on Tutorial 9:30 am – 12:00 pm
 Building an e4 RCP application with Tycho
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3. Part 1: Introduction
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4. What is Tycho?
 Tycho is a Maven extension for building
Eclipse artifacts
 Eclipse plug-ins/OSGi bundles
 Features
 p2 repositories
 RCP applications/Eclipse distributions
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5. Related Technologies
Plug-in
Development
Environment
(PDE)
Maven
Tycho
Equinox p2
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6. Maven and Tycho
Maven Tycho
 mvn clean install mvn clean install
 Packaging types for eclipse-plugin,
standard artifacts eclipse-feature, …
 Tests run in build eclipse-test-plugin
 Customize build with Most Maven plugins
additional goals also work in Tycho
(FindBugs, code projects
generators, …)
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7. Maven and Tycho (cont.)
Maven Tycho
 Dependencies  Dependencies
declared in pom.xml declared in
MANIFEST.MF, …
 Maven extension for OSGi/Eclipse artifacts
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8. PDE and Tycho
Plug-in Development
Environment (PDE) Tycho
 MANIFEST.MF, Tycho reads PDE
feature.xml, source files
build.properties, ...
 Build path according JDT compiler with
to OSGi manifest OSGi visibility rules
 JUnit plug-in tests eclipse-test-plugin
 Headless build for PDE projects
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9. p2 and Tycho
Equinox p2 Tycho
 p2 repositories for p2 repositories for
installation & update resolving build
of bundles dependencies
 “Publish” artifacts to Builds p2 repositories
p2 repositories with build artifacts
 Installer (“director”) tycho-director-plugin
 Maven front-end for p2
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10. 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
 Contributor guide:
wiki.eclipse.org/Tycho/Contributor_Guide
 Tycho 0.17.0 is available from Maven central
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11. Contributors & Users
 Committers
 Jan Sievers (SAP AG)
 Tobias Oberlies (SAP AG)
 Igor Fedorenko (Sonatype Inc.)
 Various contributions
 Users
 Eclipse platform and many other Eclipse projects
 “Common Build Infrastructure” (CBI): Services for Tycho
adoption at eclipse.org
 Commercial users: JBoss tools, Sigasi, SAP AG, …
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12. Part 2: Hands-on Tutorial
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13. Hands-on Exercises
 Create and build an Eclipse 4 RCP application
 Create a plug-in with a sample Eclipse 4 RCP
application
 Add a unit test
 Add a feature
 Create a p2 repository
 Build a distribution with the RCP application
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14. 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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15. Related Sessions
 Tycho BoF Mon 8:00 pm, Seaport Ballroom B
 Presentations from Tycho users
 Real World: Tycho Tue 5:00 pm, Cityview Ballroom 2
 From Custom Maven Builds to Tycho
Wed 10:30 am, Back Bay
 Automating the consumption of Eclipse for internal
use Thu 1:30 pm, Harborview Ballroom 2
 Comparison of build technologies
 Bundle Building Wed 1:30 pm, Beacon Hill 1
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