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

On 07/10/2014 09:06 AM, Max Rydahl Andersen wrote: > >> On 09/07/2014, at 14.38, phantomjinx >> <p.g.richardson(a)phantomjinx.co.uk&gt; 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.

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