1. BUILDING ECLIPSE PLUG-INS
AND RCP APPLICATIONS
WITH TYCHO
Tobias Oberlies & Jan Sievers, SAP AG

2. Outline
 Part 1: Introduction
 What is Tycho?
 Re-uses PDE Metadata and Concepts
 Integrates with Maven
 Speaks p2
 Who & where is Tycho
 Part 2: Hands-on Tutorial
 Building an RCP application with Tycho
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3. Part 1: Introduction
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4. What is Tycho?
 Tycho is a Maven extension for building
 Eclipse plug-ins/OSGi bundles
 Features
 p2 Repositories
 RCP Applications
 Tycho runs JUnit tests in an OSGi runtime
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5. Characteristics – Part 1
 Tycho re-uses PDE metadata files
 OSGi manifest (META-INF/MANIFEST.MF)
 build.properties
 feature.xml
 site.xml/category.xml
 *.product files
 *.target files
 Tycho re-uses PDE concepts
 Target platform – but there is one per project :-)
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6. Characteristics – Part 2
 Tycho runs like normal Maven builds
 Tycho can be combined with other Maven plug-ins
 QA tools: FindBugs, Checkstyle, PMD, ...
 Code generators
 ...
 Tycho integrates with Maven
 Follow conventions for build output folder
 Inject OSGi dependencies into Maven model
 Inject compile class-path (approximation)
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7. Characteristics – Part 3
 Tycho speaks p2
 Retrieves dependencies from p2 repositories
 Produces p2 repositories
 Tycho is based on p2
 Test runtime is test bundle plus dependencies
(resolved with p2)
 Original p2 metadata is preserved – no re-publishing
 Note: Some legacy parts are not “p2 natives”
 eclipse-update-site, eclipse-application
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8. Where is Tycho?
 Tycho is an incubator project at Eclipse
 Tycho sources are at Eclipse since September 2011
 Thanks to Wayne Beaton for paving our way
 Documentation: wiki.eclipse.org/Tycho
 Mailing lists: tycho-user, tycho-dev
 Issue tracker: Bugzilla
 Tycho 0.13.0 is available from Maven central
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9. Contributors & Users
 Committers
 Tobias Oberlies (SAP AG)
 Jan Sievers (SAP AG)
 Igor Fedorenko (Sonatype Inc.)
 Recent contributions from SAP AG, Inventage
AG, and others
 Users
 EGit, m2eclipse, CDT, JBoss tools, ...
 ~45 threads/month on tycho-users
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10. Part 2: Hands-on Tutorial
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11. Hands-on Exercises
 Step by step we will set up a typical Tycho build for
an RCP application:
 Create a Hello World RCP plugin
 Add unit tests
 Add a feature
 Create a p2 repository
 Add a product
 Use a target file
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12. Hands-On Setup
 Everything you need for the exercises is provided
on the USB stick we handed out
 The exercise instructions are fully self-contained
 Start with tutorial/README.html
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