Converting Eclipse Plugin to Maven Project

[nhcoder]

Hi everyone,

I searched on the web and this forum and found two links that were close to what I was trying to do but didn't really get there.  Basically I have an Eclipse plugin that I wrote that I would like to mavenize.  And just to get the terminology right the plugin that I have written is a plugin that gets plugged in to Eclipse and displays information about a web based file repository.

I installed Maven in Eclipse but never got the menu option that this link talks about:
http://wiki.eclipse.org/Converting_Eclipse_Java_Project_to_Maven_Project

And this one:
http://www.nabble.com/How-to-convert-or-use-a-Maven-project-as-a-dynamic-web-project--tt23430177.html#a23433354
Which talks about a web project.  

So, is there any type of conversion tool that I can point to my plugin project source code files and have it move the files and read dependencies to create a pom.xml for me or am I going to have to tear it apart and rebuild it from scratch?  

Thanks,

Andy

[Igor Fedorenko-4]

We use Tycho to build Eclipse plugins and other Eclipse PDE projects,
like feature or update site. You can read more about Tycho in [1], but
at high level, Tycho converts OSGi and Eclipse project metadata to
in-memory MavenProject instance dynamically during the build. In many
cases, it is enough to add simple pom.xml like [2] to your Eclipse
Plug-in project and then run "mvn clean install". You can see full
example with some explanation in [3] and there is separate tycho-users
mailing list to discuss development with Tycho (send email to
tycho-users-subscribe@... to subscribe).

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Regards,
Igor

[1] https://docs.sonatype.org/display/M2ECLIPSE/Tycho+project+overview
[2]
http://svn.sonatype.org/m2eclipse/tycho/trunk/tycho-demo/itp01/tycho.demo.itp01/pom.xml
[3]
https://docs.sonatype.org/display/M2ECLIPSE/Tycho+build+target+platform+management

nhcoder wrote:

> Hi everyone,
>
> I searched on the web and this forum and found two links that were close to
> what I was trying to do but didn't really get there.  Basically I have an
> Eclipse plugin that I wrote that I would like to mavenize.  And just to get
> the terminology right the plugin that I have written is a plugin that gets
> plugged in to Eclipse and displays information about a web based file
> repository.
>
> I installed Maven in Eclipse but never got the menu option that this link
> talks about:
> http://wiki.eclipse.org/Converting_Eclipse_Java_Project_to_Maven_Project
>
> And this one:
> http://www.nabble.com/How-to-convert-or-use-a-Maven-project-as-a-dynamic-web-project--tt23430177.html#a23433354
> Which talks about a web project.  
>
> So, is there any type of conversion tool that I can point to my plugin
> project source code files and have it move the files and read dependencies
> to create a pom.xml for me or am I going to have to tear it apart and
> rebuild it from scratch?  
>
> Thanks,
>
> Andy
>
>
>

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[nhcoder]

Igor,

Thanks for the response.  I tried downloading the latest dev zip file and when I tried to unzip it I got the following error:

End-of-central-directory signature not found.  Either this file is not a Zip file, or it constitutes one disk of a multi-part Zip file.


Any ideas?

Thanks,

Andy

[Igor Fedorenko-4]

You've got corrupt download somehow. Try to download the zip again, I am
quite certain the file is good on the server.

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Regards,
Igor


http://repository.sonatype.org/content/repositories/tycho-pseudo-releases/org/codehaus/tycho/tycho-distribution/0.4.0-DEV-3076/tycho-distribution-0.4.0-DEV-3076-bin.zip


nhcoder wrote:

> Igor,
>
> Thanks for the response.  I tried downloading the latest dev zip file and
> when I tried to unzip it I got the following error:
>
> End-of-central-directory signature not found.  Either this file is not a Zip
> file, or it constitutes one disk of a multi-part Zip file.
>
>
> Any ideas?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Andy

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[nhcoder]

Igor,

That file is definitely corrupted.  I tried it with the latest version of winzip.  Do you have a different version?  

Thanks,

Andy

[Fred Bricon]

Andy, I confirm the zip in NOT corrupted. Maybe try flushing your browser's cache or try d/ling it with another browser.

regards,

Fred Bricon

On Tue, Oct 13, 2009 at 4:25 PM, nhcoder <andrewnbenjamin@...> wrote:

Igor,

That file is definitely corrupted.  I tried it with the latest version of
winzip.  Do you have a different version?

Thanks,

Andy
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[nhcoder]

Fred,

Thanks for the suggestion.  Interestingly enough, IE 8 corrupts the file in the download whereas when I tried Firefox it managed to download the file properly.  

So as to not muddy up this particular forum I'll post any other questions in the tycho specific area.  

Thanks,

Andy