Apache ant eclipse update site

The first step to creating our new orbit bundle is grabbing the binary and source distributions of Apache Ant. Once you download the two versions, extract them some where convenient.

Also take note the Apache download page mentions you might need special steps to extract the distributions due to really long file names. With the latest version of Apache Ant acquired and an old version of the Ant bundle to compare to, lets create the new version in our workspace. A note here: it is a good idea to have no other bundles open in you workspace while you are working on Apache Ant.

So best to just keep all your other bundles closed while you create the new version. Thats it! First we will start with updating the binary parts of the bundle. This involves copying files from the binary distribution of Ant. If everything checks out with the manifest and classpath, then we are done.

If not go back through the steps to confirm they are all done. Next we update the source parts of the bundle. This involves copying files from the source distribution of Ant. See also meaning of kinds of builds. See the online help article Adding a new software site for instructions on how to add a new update site to your Eclipse installation. Below are special composite repository URLs that are primarily intended for committers and early adopters.

They are each a composite that simply points to the current version of the repositories listed below. Then it is recommended to re start your Eclipse with the -clean option. Full sources The source distribution contains the source files of the plugins, the features and the build system, so you will be able to reproduce the build that create the 2.

Download: as a zip: apache-ivyde-sources It is automatically publishing the last build into an updatesite. They are dedicated to people willing to understand and contribute to Ivy and IvyDE code. This guarantees the signed artifacts voted on are identical to what's put up for release. To run the build for any of the Eclipse update sites, you must have maven property variables set to identify an accessible Eclipse installation 4.

These are typically put into your. The first decision when doing an update is to decide if you need to add a new sub-update-site to the set managed by the Composite collection. If so, update buildCompositeRepository. To update a sub-site, go to that subsite's project for its update-site. For example, for uimaj, this is the project uimaj-eclipse-update-site. You probably won't need to update this file, unless you're adding some completely new features. If all you're doing is releasing new versions of existing features, you can leave this file alone, because the version information is added during resource filtering based on the the update site's own POM version.

Any new features must be added to one or more categories, for them to be "visible". If you are changing categories, this is where that is done, also; but that is probably a rare occurrence.

The build process packs just the new plugin Jars, and combines these and the new feature Jars with the existing update site which probably has older versions of the features and plugins , and generates new metadata for the new plugins and appends this to any existing metadata. Normally, the composite update site doesn't change. It changes when new sub-sites are created, usually for new projects having Eclipse components. To change the Composite site, update the POM to a new version number it's numbered like build artifacts, with a simple incrementing integer.

Then update the buildCompositeRepository. The build is done using the same techniques as the other update site: the dist Then the build runs the special ant tasks to generate the composite Jars from the buildCompositeRepository. If you use the -Papache-release parameter on the mvn command line, the build will generate the checksums and do the gpg signing of the artifacts. Plugins are the smallest unit of development.