Main Goal: deploy a project as jar and eclipse-plugin
current state: project builds fine as jar package
Now i want to create a second project which wraps the jar project as eclipse plugin
- use tycho-maven-plugin to create eclipse-plugin
- add the jar of the original project (with copy-dependency)
- add an Activator
- export packages from jar
- create correct MANIFEST.MF
i tried to copy the jar with copy-dependencies bound to create-resources. This works as long the jar is found in repository, but the local project gets ignored. This results in a build failure since the jar is not found.
Is it possible to tell copy-dependencies to take the jar from the target directory of the project? Or should i use some other method than using tycho?
Edit:
I solved my problem with 4 projects:
- normal project (nothing special here)
- the wrapper project using tycho maven and copy-dependencies. bound copy dependencies to some goal before compile (e.g. generate-resources). Excluded all artefactid which were set as dependency in the MANIFEST.MF.
- a prepare project, which calls the normal project and installs it into the repo. This is needed because the tycho-maven-plugin is bound to validate and it is not possible to call the exec plugin beforehand (at least not easy).
- a multi module project which calls the prepare project before the wrapper project.
