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"How we create our update-sites? What are they? Which one you should use?"
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JBoss Tools is made of a lot of plugins coming from different component, and that are
aggregated for ease their installation. There are a lot of repositories. This page is
intended to explain what are our repositories, what are they aimed to, and where they are
coming from:
h1. General process
Here is the general process of the lifecycle of sites in the build.
*For each stream (branch or trunk) in progress*:
1. Mirror requirements and composite specific versions into a single Requirements site
2. Build all common stuff (parent, target-platforms). Publish to maven artifacts to JBoss
Nexus and update sites to
download.jboss.org
3. Build each component and publish to
download.jboss.org
4. A *staging composite* repository is used to provide a single URL for all
components' update sites
5. A *nightly snapshot* is continuously created from the composite site. It contains the
latest good build of each component, including categorization & source
features/plugins. A test site is also created, containing only test features/plugins.
6. After a code-freeze, the nightly snapshot is first staged as a *development milestone*
and passed to QE for validation. Upon approval, it is published to
www.jboss.org.
7. After several milestone and validation cycles, we publish our best *development
milestone* as a *stable release*.
The same applies to SOA components. Some additional steps exist to also build JBDS site
and products continuously, following the same lifecycle.
Here's a diagram which shows how all the jobs, update sites, and other artifacts
co-exist:
https://community.jboss.org/servlet/JiveServlet/showImage/102-18462-2-187...
https://community.jboss.org/servlet/JiveServlet/downloadImage/102-18462-2...
The diagram below (while out of date) provides some additional information about the
process:
h2.
http://anonsvn.jboss.org/repos/jbosstools/trunk/build/diagrams/JBDS_Aggre...
http://anonsvn.jboss.org/repos/jbosstools/trunk/build/diagrams/JBDS_Aggre...
Repositories / Update-Sites
h3. Requirements / Target-platfoms sites / Mirrors
These site are mirrors of dependencies of JBoss Tools. They are here to provide more
performance and to ensure we have a backup of everything we depend on.
|| *URL* || *Name* || *Profile to activate in build* || *Performance*
|| *When to use it?
* ||
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http://download.jboss.org/jbosstools/updates/requirements/+<NAME>+/...
| Individual mirror | Not possible | Good | When you want to install a 3rd-party deps, and
you prefer this server |
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http://download.jboss.org/jbosstools/updates/+<ECLIPSE_RELEASE_TRAIN&g... |
Composute requirements | Not possible, should be part of Target Platform | Bad | To build
extras and target-platform site |
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http://download.jboss.org/jbosstools/updates/target-platform_+<NAME>+/ | Target
Platform site | By default, as part of the target-platform | Good | Is a mirror of the
target platform. It is used whenever you use a .target file. |
h3. JBT (non-SOA)
|| *URL
* || *Name* || *Profile to activate in build* || *Quality/Stability* || Performances ||
When to use it? ||
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http://download.jboss.org/jbosstools/builds/staging/+<COMPONENT_JOB_NA...
| Component rep | Not possible, use composite instead | Poor | Good | When you really want
the latest stuff on a single component without loosing performances |
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http://download.jboss.org/jbosstools/builds/staging/_composite_/core/+<...
| Composite repo | -P jbosstools-nightly-composite | Poor | Poor | If you want very latest
changes |
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http://download.jboss.org/jbosstools/builds/staging/jbosstools-+<BRANC...
| Aggregated snapshot repo | Not possible, use jbosstools-nightly instead | Poor | Average
| NEVER. This is the temporary location of the aggregated site. It gets published to a
better location afer |
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http://download.jboss.org/jbosstools/updates/nightly/core/+<BRANCH_NAM... |
Aggregated snapshot repo | Currently, use -P jbosstools-staging-aggregate | Poor | Good |
When you want to develop with recent version of dependencies (1 or 2 days ago). Suitable
for local testing
NOTE: this is the "work in progress" final site |
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http://download.jboss.org/jbosstools/updates/nightly/coretests/+<BRANC... |
Aggegated tests | Currently, use -P jbosstools-staging-aggregate | Poor | Good | Contains
tests |
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http://download.jboss.org/jbosstools/updates/JBossTools-+<x.y.z.q>+... |
Milestones | Not possible | Average | Good | Good for testing, evaluating features. Good
for community contributors. |
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http://download.jboss.org/jbosstools/updates/development/+<TARGET_ECLI...
| Latest Milestone | Not possible | Average | Good | Good for testing, and for building
stuff on top of JBT that will be released a bit later |
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http://download.jboss.org/jbosstools/updates/stable/<TARGET_ECLIPSE_RE...
| Release | Not possible | Good | Good | Good for end-users |
h3. JBT SOA
|| *URL
* || *Name* || *Profile to activate in build* || *Quality/Stability* || *Performance* ||
*When to use it?* ||
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