Eclipse pde map files

This can be a laborious and error prone process. Fortunately, PDE contains a batch oriented mechanism, the packager which can help. In short, the packager takes as input a list of zips containing features and a list of interesting features.

It then fetches the zips, extracts the features and their plug-ins and repackages them into an output zip. Below is a set of basic steps to get started with the packager. These drops contain the Plug-in Development Enviroment plug-ins only, with user documentation. This plug-in provides features that will help with the Eclipse development process.

Installing the plug-in will add the following actions. To install simply unzip the file into your plugins directory and restart Eclipse. Please use the Release feature of this plug-in to do your build submissions.

Release to the Team menu. Load Map Projects to the Team menu. Tag Map Projects to the Team menu. Compare with Released to the Compare menu.

Compare the selected projects with the versions referenced in the currently loaded map files. Replace with Released to the Replace menu. Replace the selected projects with the versions referenced in the currently loaded map files. Fix Copyright to the Resource Perspective Projects context menu.

Oh, well.. Let's generate it manually and put to that deep folder in the buildDirectory Does it work now? That's where I am stuck at the moment. Hard to believe that the RCP application build is only the matter of calling standard productBuild. And that is not yet all what I need. But I am hoping that as soon as I get feature build. PS: the whole headless PDE building seems to be so unnecessary complicated. Why does it require generated plugin and feature build file to be called build.

I have to move my own integration build. The PDE build does use already custom eclipse ant tasks. Why aren't they made standalone and not requiring to be run from under Eclipse application using additional ant scripts? Except for some really minor things, like automatic build version change, and, may be, p2 repository metadata generation, I was able to repeat the whole story from scratch using standard Ant tasks.

All right, I spent some time for that, which could be saved by that eclipse ant tasks. But, unfortunately, they don't do that for me yet. Thu, 12 November Since that, I found a way to generate a build script for a plugin outside the IDE. Thank you very much, valerossi! I was able to build the feature the way you've written.

I had actually tried this approach before but it didn't work by me. Guess why. My mistake was to not setting the "workingdirectory" property to the Eclipse workspace folder. Andrew Niefer Messages: Registered: July The help starts here because fetching from source control is more advanced and the help needs to start with something simple so that people can get started. There is a help page on fetching, you need to set up map files that specify where your code lives in source control.

These static scripts need to know where the first top level feature is to invoke the build. By default it assumes that feature is in buildDirectory. Everything else can be anywhere you want. If your top level feature is not in the buildDirectory, you need to set the property "elementPath" to the location of that feature.

The SDK is not a simple build and very much requires a lot of that complexity. It was originally named "build. Also, some of those "minor" things like p2 repositories turn out to not be so minor in general. It is however, dependent on the location of the projects.

Note that invoking the eclipse. The pde. Generally it is simpler to copy the template build. Fri, 13 November Andrew, thank you for your comments! Andrew Niefer wrote on Thu, 12 November Besides, there are some other minor things, that could be improved in the headless PDE build. The docs recommend to put the buildDirectory separatetly from the sources in order not to pollute the folder under source control.

At the same time lot's of generated scripts and even folders dot remain in the roots of project folders after the build. The property names used everywhere in the scripts mostly do not contain any distinguishing prefix meaning that some side effects can be expected in the chained Ant builds where property names can overlap.

All right, here we go again trying to build a feature using standard PDE build. The exported plug-ins and features will be put into two folders "plugins" and "features". Two other files, "content. These files, along with "site. To make the update site available to others you must make all these files available in a shared directory or web site.

Most of the setup necessary for such a build can be done through a few modifications to the template build. The following section focuses on setting up a simple product build assuming that all plug-ins and features both to build and pre-built referenced by the product file are already locally available on disk. The first step in setting up a build is to create the directory in which the build will take place.

This directory will be referred to as the build directory and will contain the plug-ins and features to build as well as all the generated artifacts. Next, copy your plug-ins and features respectively into "plugins" and "features" subdirectories. The second step in setting up a build is to copy the template build. Edit the copied build. To run the build you will use the org. When invoking eclipse with this application to perform a build you need to set two arguments on the command line:.

Behind the scenes this setup will generate a feature containing the plugins or features specified in your product configuration file.

This generated feature is then used to drive a normal feature based headless build. If you require more customization of the build, ie fetching from a repository, see the Advanced PDE Build topics for more information. PDE Build comes with infrastructure to automate the build of features.

The following section focuses on setting up a simple build assuming that all plug-ins and features both to-build and pre-built referenced from the feature being built are already locally available on disk. The first step in setting up a build is to create the build configuration directory. This is the directory in which the files that control and customize the headless build are kept.

The main file for controlling the build is the top level build configuration build. When setting up a new build, copy the template file from the org.

The template file is located under org. This directory is refered to by the builder properties which is normally set on the ant command line. If bundles and features are being fetch from a repository See Fetching From Repositories , then they will be placed here as well.

This directory may be the same as the build configuration directory, or it may be a different directory. It may be desirable to use a separate directory, especially if the build configuration is kept in CVS and you don't want to pollute it with generated build artifacts. To set up a basic feature build, you need to edit the build configuration build. The allElements. See Customizing a Headless Build. Once the build is complete, you can get the result in the build directory in the folder named I.

TestBuild this name can be configured by setting the buildLabel property. In order to build plug-ins, bundles or fragments, PDE build requires that you create a feature listing all the elements to be built. In this case the feature is only used to drive the build and will not be present in the final archive nor will it force you to use update sites. A feature used to drive a plug-in build is a standard feature.

What makes it different is that its build. It is possible to automatically generate a feature containing the plug-ins you wish to build. This lets you build your plug-ins without requiring you to maintain a feature. See the eclipse. Once you have created the feature to drive the build, follow the instructions on building features. Ant is a simple open-source scripting engine that is capable of running scripts written in XML format. Ant is ideal for executing tasks usually found in automated builds.

The variables set in the plug-in, fragment or feature build. PDE generates Ant scripts for creating individual plug-in and fragment build files and one overall script for building the feature JAR. This "main" script is also responsible for running individual script files in the right order defined by the plug-in dependency chain. Each build file has the same name build. Since Ant scripts use the replacement variables in build. If you do modify them, you must not recreate the scripts every time you want to rebuild the component.