[jbosstools-dev] New JBoss Tools Target Platforms for Kepler M4, Juno R and Juno SR0 (M5 and SR2 coming next month)

[Nick Boldt]

After much refactoring, renaming, reorganizing, and (hopefully soon) 
publishing to a github repo, we have 3 new target platforms for use with 
builds.

These have as yet NOT been coupled up into the parent poms for the 
40x/60x and 41x/70x streams so that you can have some time to try them 
out. How do you use them? Via a standard maven build, but passing in 
this additional flag:

 > mvn clean install ... -DTARGET_PLATFORM_VERSION=4.20.5.Final-SNAPSHOT

Changes to the previous target platforms (other than refactoring [5] and 
migration to a new github repo [6]) include the removal of source and 
sdk features [7], so these are slimmer and trimmer than their 
predecessors, previously referred to as JunoSR0c and JunoSR1a.

The new TPs, rather than being named for an Eclipse release train, will 
now be named for the version of Eclipse included therein.

Thus:

* JunoSR0c (the 4th iteration) would be called 4.20.4.Final-SNAPSHOT
* JunoSR1a (the 2nd iteration) would be called 4.21.2.Final-SNAPSHOT

Therefore the new target platforms are:

* 4.20.5.Final-SNAPSHOT
* 4.21.3.Final-SNAPSHOT
* 4.30.0.Alpha1-SNAPSHOT

These are available here [1]:

[1] http://download.jboss.org/jbosstools/targetplatforms/jbosstoolstarget/

All the TPs are being built with a single job, which next month will 
grow to include target platforms for Juno SR2 (4.22.0.Final-SNAPSHOT) 
and Kepler M5 (4.30.1.Alpha1-SNAPSHOT).

Publishing to the JBoss Nexus snapshots repo is now done to this path 
[4], under which you'll now see jbosstools-multiple, jbosstools-unified. 
We are still making a distinction between multiple.target, which 
includes multiple URLs, and unified.target, which points to the single 
unified URL to which the TP is published ([1] above).

[4] 
https://repository.jboss.org/nexus/content/repositories/snapshots/org/jboss/tools/targetplatforms/

If you have any questions or comments, please post them here [5], [6], 
[7], [8], or reply to this thread.

[5] https://issues.jboss.org/browse/JBIDE-13232 (refactor/rename/reorg)
[6] https://issues.jboss.org/browse/JBIDE-13386 (create new github repo)
[7] https://issues.jboss.org/browse/JBIDE-13329 (remove sources)
[8] https://issues.jboss.org/browse/JBIDE-13408 (remove SNAPSHOT suffix)

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Nick Boldt :: JBoss by Red Hat
Productization Lead :: JBoss Tools & Dev Studio
http://nick.divbyzero.com