[jbosstools-dev] An excursion into integration testing plugins with Arquillian

[phantomjinx]

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On 07/10/2014 09:06 AM, Max Rydahl Andersen wrote:
> 
>> On 09/07/2014, at 14.38, phantomjinx <p.g.richardson at phantomjinx.co.uk> wrote:
>> 
> On 07/04/2014 05:01 PM, Max Rydahl Andersen wrote:
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> My main concern is that this is bringing in dependencies outside or our target
>>>>>> platform thus less easy to contain/check for overlaps. Also - using mvn copy goal
>>>>>> seems to me to be the better way rather than using ant auto builders?
>>>>> 
>>>>> The ant auto builder [1] does hands-off maven by calling 'mvn process-sources'. This
>>>>> always executes the mvn copy-dependencies goal so bringing in the dependencies [2]. It
>>>>> has always been essential that any process happening while developing in Eclipse must
>>>>> also occur when building on the command line through maven. This is an example of that
>>>>> with the ant providing the plumbing between Eclipse and maven.
>>>> 
>>>> ..isn't that what the tycho-m2 plugin does for you ?
> 
> Well I am no expert in tycho so I may be wrong or not-up-to-date but no tycho cannot help.
> 
> Tycho looks only looks for dependencies in pom files, which are osgi bundles. Normal maven jar 
> libraries are ignored hence for those libraries to be available on the classpath to both
> eclipse's P2 and Tycho, they much be listed in the manifest file. I do this by specifying them
> as dependencies in the pom file and using copy-dependencies to get them into the lib directory
> of the plugin.
> 
> 
>> Yes, we do this in other places too and tycho m2e integration makes it happen without needing
>> the ant step.
> 
>> /max

Well eliminating the need for the ant build scripts would certainly simplify things. Can you point
me to an example project as the tycho-m2e documentation on the net is a little scant.

Cheers

PGR

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