Building XEclipse RCP with Maven
Last modified by Clemens Fuchslocher on 2010/03/08 23:03
This page tries to explain the Maven-based build process of the XEclipse RCP version by example. The steps below were performed under a Debian GNU/Linux 5.0 system. But they should also work under Mac OS X and its "rock-solid UNIX foundation" or a Cygwin-based Windows environment.
- Eclipse RCP environment
- Patches
- Building XEclipse from the trunk
- Building XEclipse from the sandbox
- Used software versions
Additional notes can be found at:
- Building XEclipse
- http://svn.xwiki.org/svnroot/xwiki/xeclipse/trunk/README
- http://svn.xwiki.org/svnroot/xwiki/xeclipse/trunk/plugins/org.xwiki.eclipse.rcp/README
- http://svn.xwiki.org/svnroot/xwiki/contrib/sandbox/xeclipse/README
- http://svn.xwiki.org/svnroot/xwiki/contrib/sandbox/xeclipse/org.xwiki.eclipse.rcp/README
Eclipse RCP environment
To create an Eclipse RCP development environment you will need to download the Eclipse SDK, the RCP SDK and the DeltaPack package from http://download.eclipse.org/eclipse/downloads/drops/R-3.4-200806172000/:
$ mkdir ~/xeclipse
$ cd ~/xeclipse
$ wget 'http://download.eclipse.org/eclipse/downloads/drops/R-3.4-200806172000/eclipse-3.4-delta-pack.zip' \
'http://download.eclipse.org/eclipse/downloads/drops/R-3.4-200806172000/eclipse-RCP-SDK-3.4-linux-gtk.tar.gz' \
'http://download.eclipse.org/eclipse/downloads/drops/R-3.4-200806172000/eclipse-SDK-3.4-linux-gtk.tar.gz'
$ ls -1
eclipse-3.4-delta-pack.zip
eclipse-RCP-SDK-3.4-linux-gtk.tar.gz
eclipse-SDK-3.4-linux-gtk.tar.gz
$ md5sum *
49e913b17cbd3f2807e6b969a81f03d9 eclipse-3.4-delta-pack.zip
6b01bb0ae74748ddebe851f70672f75d eclipse-RCP-SDK-3.4-linux-gtk.tar.gz
4f7183395f61f70711a1f244faf5d763 eclipse-SDK-3.4-linux-gtk.tar.gz
$ cd ~/xeclipse
$ wget 'http://download.eclipse.org/eclipse/downloads/drops/R-3.4-200806172000/eclipse-3.4-delta-pack.zip' \
'http://download.eclipse.org/eclipse/downloads/drops/R-3.4-200806172000/eclipse-RCP-SDK-3.4-linux-gtk.tar.gz' \
'http://download.eclipse.org/eclipse/downloads/drops/R-3.4-200806172000/eclipse-SDK-3.4-linux-gtk.tar.gz'
$ ls -1
eclipse-3.4-delta-pack.zip
eclipse-RCP-SDK-3.4-linux-gtk.tar.gz
eclipse-SDK-3.4-linux-gtk.tar.gz
$ md5sum *
49e913b17cbd3f2807e6b969a81f03d9 eclipse-3.4-delta-pack.zip
6b01bb0ae74748ddebe851f70672f75d eclipse-RCP-SDK-3.4-linux-gtk.tar.gz
4f7183395f61f70711a1f244faf5d763 eclipse-SDK-3.4-linux-gtk.tar.gz
Then you can setup everything like this:
$ cd ~/xeclipse
$ tar -zxvf eclipse-SDK-3.4-linux-gtk.tar.gz
$ cp eclipse/plugins/org.eclipse.equinox.launcher_1.0.100.v20080509-1800.jar eclipse/startup.jar
$ mv eclipse eclipse-3.4-sdk
$ tar -zxvf eclipse-RCP-SDK-3.4-linux-gtk.tar.gz
$ unzip -o eclipse-3.4-delta-pack.zip
$ mv eclipse eclipse-3.4-sdk-rcp
$ ls -1
eclipse-3.4-sdk/
eclipse-3.4-sdk-rcp/
eclipse-3.4-delta-pack.zip
eclipse-RCP-SDK-3.4-linux-gtk.tar.gz
eclipse-SDK-3.4-linux-gtk.tar.gz
$ ls -d ./eclipse-3.4-sdk/plugins/org.eclipse.pde.build_*
./eclipse-3.4-sdk/plugins/org.eclipse.pde.build_3.4.0.v20080604
$ tar -zxvf eclipse-SDK-3.4-linux-gtk.tar.gz
$ cp eclipse/plugins/org.eclipse.equinox.launcher_1.0.100.v20080509-1800.jar eclipse/startup.jar
$ mv eclipse eclipse-3.4-sdk
$ tar -zxvf eclipse-RCP-SDK-3.4-linux-gtk.tar.gz
$ unzip -o eclipse-3.4-delta-pack.zip
$ mv eclipse eclipse-3.4-sdk-rcp
$ ls -1
eclipse-3.4-sdk/
eclipse-3.4-sdk-rcp/
eclipse-3.4-delta-pack.zip
eclipse-RCP-SDK-3.4-linux-gtk.tar.gz
eclipse-SDK-3.4-linux-gtk.tar.gz
$ ls -d ./eclipse-3.4-sdk/plugins/org.eclipse.pde.build_*
./eclipse-3.4-sdk/plugins/org.eclipse.pde.build_3.4.0.v20080604
Patches
Copy the following patches into the previously created xeclipse directory:
- This patch adds the snapshots repository to http://svn.xwiki.org/svnroot/xwiki/xeclipse/trunk/plugins/org.xwiki.eclipse.rcp/pom.xml. The artifact com.xpn.xwiki.platform:xwiki:pom:14-SNAPSHOT can't be found without this patch.
- This patch adds the snapshots repository to http://svn.xwiki.org/svnroot/xwiki/contrib/sandbox/xeclipse/org.xwiki.eclipse.rcp/pom.xml. The artifact com.xpn.xwiki.platform:xwiki:pom:14-SNAPSHOT can't be found without this patch.
- This patch adds the externals, the releases and the snapshots repository to http://svn.xwiki.org/svnroot/xwiki/contrib/sandbox/xeclipse/org.xwiki.eclipse.ui/copy-dependencies-pom.xml. Most artifacts from copy-dependencies-pom.xml are located in these repositories.
- This two patches add xwiki-core-properties-2.0-SNAPSHOT.jar to the OSGi bundle org.xwiki.eclipse.ui_1.2.0.RC1.jar. Prevents NoClassDefFoundErrors at runtime.
$ cd ~/xeclipse
$ ls -1 *.patch
sandbox-MANIFEST.MF.patch
sandbox-build.properties.patch
sandbox-copy-dependencies-pom.xml.patch
sandbox-pom.xml.patch
trunk-pom.xml.patch
$ ls -1 *.patch
sandbox-MANIFEST.MF.patch
sandbox-build.properties.patch
sandbox-copy-dependencies-pom.xml.patch
sandbox-pom.xml.patch
trunk-pom.xml.patch
Building XEclipse from the trunk
$ cd ~/xeclipse
$ svn co http://svn.xwiki.org/svnroot/xwiki/xeclipse/trunk trunk
$ ls -1
eclipse-3.4-sdk/
eclipse-3.4-sdk-rcp/
trunk/
eclipse-3.4-delta-pack.zip
eclipse-RCP-SDK-3.4-linux-gtk.tar.gz
eclipse-SDK-3.4-linux-gtk.tar.gz
sandbox-MANIFEST.MF.patch
sandbox-build.properties.patch
sandbox-copy-dependencies-pom.xml.patch
sandbox-pom.xml.patch
trunk-pom.xml.patch
$ cd trunk/plugins/org.xwiki.eclipse.rcp
$ patch -p1 < ~/xeclipse/trunk-pom.xml.patch
$ mvn compile -DeclipseInstall=../../../eclipse-3.4-sdk \
-DeclipseRCPSDK=../../../eclipse-3.4-sdk-rcp \
-DpdeBuildVersion=3.4.0.v20080604 -Plinux
$ ls ../../M.XEclipse/*.zip
../../M.XEclipse/XEclipse-linux.gtk.x86.zip
$ svn co http://svn.xwiki.org/svnroot/xwiki/xeclipse/trunk trunk
$ ls -1
eclipse-3.4-sdk/
eclipse-3.4-sdk-rcp/
trunk/
eclipse-3.4-delta-pack.zip
eclipse-RCP-SDK-3.4-linux-gtk.tar.gz
eclipse-SDK-3.4-linux-gtk.tar.gz
sandbox-MANIFEST.MF.patch
sandbox-build.properties.patch
sandbox-copy-dependencies-pom.xml.patch
sandbox-pom.xml.patch
trunk-pom.xml.patch
$ cd trunk/plugins/org.xwiki.eclipse.rcp
$ patch -p1 < ~/xeclipse/trunk-pom.xml.patch
$ mvn compile -DeclipseInstall=../../../eclipse-3.4-sdk \
-DeclipseRCPSDK=../../../eclipse-3.4-sdk-rcp \
-DpdeBuildVersion=3.4.0.v20080604 -Plinux
$ ls ../../M.XEclipse/*.zip
../../M.XEclipse/XEclipse-linux.gtk.x86.zip
The ZIP archive of the generated RCP application is saved in ~/xeclipse/trunk/M.XEclipse.
Building XEclipse from the sandbox
$ cd ~/xeclipse
$ svn co http://svn.xwiki.org/svnroot/xwiki/xeclipse/trunk sandbox/trunk
$ svn co http://svn.xwiki.org/svnroot/xwiki/contrib/sandbox/xeclipse sandbox/sandbox
$ ls -1
eclipse-3.4-sdk/
eclipse-3.4-sdk-rcp/
sandbox/
trunk/
eclipse-3.4-delta-pack.zip
eclipse-RCP-SDK-3.4-linux-gtk.tar.gz
eclipse-SDK-3.4-linux-gtk.tar.gz
sandbox-MANIFEST.MF.patch
sandbox-build.properties.patch
sandbox-copy-dependencies-pom.xml.patch
sandbox-pom.xml.patch
trunk-pom.xml.patch
$ cd sandbox/trunk/plugins
$ rm -rf org.xwiki.eclipse.core org.xwiki.eclipse.rcp org.xwiki.eclipse.ui org.xwiki.eclipse.xmlrpc
$ cp -r ../../sandbox/* .
$ cd org.xwiki.eclipse.ui
$ patch -p1 < ~/xeclipse/sandbox-copy-dependencies-pom.xml.patch
$ mvn -f copy-dependencies-pom.xml dependency:copy-dependencies
$ patch -p1 < ~/xeclipse/sandbox-build.properties.patch
$ cd META-INF
$ patch -p2 < ~/xeclipse/sandbox-MANIFEST.MF.patch
$ cd ../../org.xwiki.eclipse.rcp
$ patch -p1 < ~/xeclipse/sandbox-pom.xml.patch
$ mvn compile -DeclipseInstall=../../../../eclipse-3.4-sdk \
-DeclipseRCPSDK=../../../../eclipse-3.4-sdk-rcp \
-DpdeBuildVersion=3.4.0.v20080604 -Plinux
$ ls ../../M.XEclipse/*.zip
../../M.XEclipse/XEclipse-linux.gtk.x86.zip
$ svn co http://svn.xwiki.org/svnroot/xwiki/xeclipse/trunk sandbox/trunk
$ svn co http://svn.xwiki.org/svnroot/xwiki/contrib/sandbox/xeclipse sandbox/sandbox
$ ls -1
eclipse-3.4-sdk/
eclipse-3.4-sdk-rcp/
sandbox/
trunk/
eclipse-3.4-delta-pack.zip
eclipse-RCP-SDK-3.4-linux-gtk.tar.gz
eclipse-SDK-3.4-linux-gtk.tar.gz
sandbox-MANIFEST.MF.patch
sandbox-build.properties.patch
sandbox-copy-dependencies-pom.xml.patch
sandbox-pom.xml.patch
trunk-pom.xml.patch
$ cd sandbox/trunk/plugins
$ rm -rf org.xwiki.eclipse.core org.xwiki.eclipse.rcp org.xwiki.eclipse.ui org.xwiki.eclipse.xmlrpc
$ cp -r ../../sandbox/* .
$ cd org.xwiki.eclipse.ui
$ patch -p1 < ~/xeclipse/sandbox-copy-dependencies-pom.xml.patch
$ mvn -f copy-dependencies-pom.xml dependency:copy-dependencies
$ patch -p1 < ~/xeclipse/sandbox-build.properties.patch
$ cd META-INF
$ patch -p2 < ~/xeclipse/sandbox-MANIFEST.MF.patch
$ cd ../../org.xwiki.eclipse.rcp
$ patch -p1 < ~/xeclipse/sandbox-pom.xml.patch
$ mvn compile -DeclipseInstall=../../../../eclipse-3.4-sdk \
-DeclipseRCPSDK=../../../../eclipse-3.4-sdk-rcp \
-DpdeBuildVersion=3.4.0.v20080604 -Plinux
$ ls ../../M.XEclipse/*.zip
../../M.XEclipse/XEclipse-linux.gtk.x86.zip
The ZIP archive of the generated RCP application is saved in ~/xeclipse/sandbox/trunk/M.XEclipse.
Used software versions
$ export JAVA_HOME=/opt/jdk-1.6.0
$ export PATH=$JAVA_HOME/bin:$PATH
$ java -version
java version "1.6.0_16"
$ export M2_HOME=/opt/maven-2.2.1
$ export PATH=$M2_HOME/bin:$PATH
$ mvn -version
Apache Maven 2.2.1 (r801777; 2009-08-06 19:16:01+0000)
$ bash --version
GNU bash, version 3.2.39(1)-release (i486-pc-linux-gnu)
$ md5sum --version
md5sum (GNU coreutils) 6.10
$ svn --version
svn, version 1.5.1 (r32289)
$ tar --version
tar (GNU tar) 1.20
$ patch --version
patch 2.5.9
$ unzip --version
UnZip 5.52 of 28 February 2005, by Debian. Original by Info-ZIP.
$ wget --version
GNU Wget 1.11.4
$ export PATH=$JAVA_HOME/bin:$PATH
$ java -version
java version "1.6.0_16"
$ export M2_HOME=/opt/maven-2.2.1
$ export PATH=$M2_HOME/bin:$PATH
$ mvn -version
Apache Maven 2.2.1 (r801777; 2009-08-06 19:16:01+0000)
$ bash --version
GNU bash, version 3.2.39(1)-release (i486-pc-linux-gnu)
$ md5sum --version
md5sum (GNU coreutils) 6.10
$ svn --version
svn, version 1.5.1 (r32289)
$ tar --version
tar (GNU tar) 1.20
$ patch --version
patch 2.5.9
$ unzip --version
UnZip 5.52 of 28 February 2005, by Debian. Original by Info-ZIP.
$ wget --version
GNU Wget 1.11.4
