[jbosstools-issues] [JBoss JIRA] (JBIDE-10401) externalize URL for Central directory.xml file so it can be passed in via commandline when building or at runtime

externalize URL for Central directory.xml file so it can be passed in via commandline when building or at runtime ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Key: JBIDE-10401 URL: https://issues.jboss.org/browse/JBIDE-10401 Project: Tools (JBoss Tools) Issue Type: Bug Components: Build/Releng, central, updatesite Affects Versions: 3.3.0.M5 Reporter: Nick Boldt Assignee: Nick Boldt Priority: Critical Fix For: 3.3.0.Beta1 1. Need to replace hardcoded variable {code} private static final String JBOSS_DISCOVERY_DIRECTORY_3_3_0_XML = "http://download.jboss.org/jbosstools/updates/nightly/core/trunk/jbosstools-directory.xml"; // published URL {code} with value in plugin.properties. This will allow the plugin to be "fixed" when releasing it to point at a different URL. 2. Need to allow passing in the URL as a commandline variable at build-time so that we can have the same code overridden when built in stable branch for a milestone vs. in trunk. This could be done via Maven calling Ant in the pom.xml to do a simple XSLT on the build.properties file. (If you can't figure out another way, assign this part to me and I'll do this -- already have 80% of the code for such a transform in place.) This would allow overrides to be set in the parent/pom.xml or via commandline -D flags. 3. We could also set 4 variables in the plugin.properties file (for the 4 possible URLs) and have the -D flag be a simple switch between GA, milestone, nightly stable, and nightly trunk, without having to actually state the URL via the commandline.