BUILDING ECLIPSE PLUG-INS
AND RCP APPLICATIONS
WITH TYCHO
17.03.2014 Tobias Oberlies, SAP AG
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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Part 1: Introduction
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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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Technology Background
Plug-in
Development
Environment
(PDE)
Maven
Tycho
Equinox p2
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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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Maven and Tycho (cont.)
Maven Tycho
Resolve against Resolve against p2
Maven repositories repositories
Dependencies Dependencies
declared in pom.xml declared in
MANIFEST.MF, …
Maven extension for OSGi/Eclipse artifacts
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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
Automated build for PDE projects
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p2 and Tycho
Equinox p2 Tycho
p2 repositories for p2 repositories for
installation & update resolving build
of plug-ins 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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Where is Tycho?
Tycho is a Technology incubator project at Eclipse
Sources are at git.eclipse.org
Documentation: wiki.eclipse.org/Tycho
Mailing lists: tycho-user, tycho-dev
Issue tracker: Bugzilla
Contributor guide:
wiki.eclipse.org/Tycho/Contributor_Guide
Tycho 0.20.0 is available from Maven central
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Contributors
Committers
Igor Fedorenko (takari.io)
Jan Sievers (SAP AG)
Tobias Oberlies (SAP AG)
Various contributions
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Users
Eclipse IDE projects
Eclipse tooling, e.g. CDT, EGit, …
Eclipse packages (EPP)
Eclipse platform
“Common Build Infrastructure” (CBI): Services for Tycho
adoption at eclipse.org
OSGi applications: Gyrex, openHAB, …
Commercial users: RedHat, Sigasi, SAP AG, …
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Part 2: Hands-on Tutorial
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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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Hands-On Setup
All material you need for the exercises is available
from the USB sticks
Eclipse distribution for your platform
The „tutorial“ folder
No Wi-Fi required
Do exercises together or at your own pace
The exercise instructions are fully self-contained
Start with tutorial/README.html
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Related Sessions
Tycho BoF Wed 6:00 pm, Grand Peninsular G
Talks
Time to Build and Test Results 3x Faster - How We Did It
Tue 11:15 am, Bayside Room
Integration tests for RCP made easy with SWTBot and
Tycho Tue 3:00 pm, Bayside Room
15000 users, one update site Thu 10:15 am, Gr. Peninsular B
Fork the IDE: Build your own SDK with CBI Thu 11:00 am,
Harbour Room
EclipseCon Hackathon Tue 7:00 pm, Harbour Room
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