[jbosstools-dev] Parent pom updated! Minimum/default target platform used in master branch (4.1/7.0) now points at Kepler M4 bits, with M5 coming next week; Juno&Kepler TPs will remove unneeded IUs next week

[Nick Boldt]

1.

It was decided today that because we can't build ALL of JBoss Tools 
using Juno, we should build everything with Kepler instead. (Hibernate 
Tools depends on Dali, which broke API again. Since JavaEE project 
depends on Hibernate Tools, this affects a large chunk of our stack.)

This is in keeping with past years, where each release is not 
backwards-compatible w/ its previous due to changes at Eclipse 
preventing it. (eg., in JBT 4.0, we tried to build on both Indigo and 
Juno, and ultimately decided we should be building on Juno. Again, 
Hibernate Tools / Dali caused this.)

If you want to build locally against Juno instead of Kepler for your own 
tests/sanity checks, use this:

mvn verify -DTARGET_PLATFORM_VERSION=4.20.5.Final-SNAPSHOT  #JunoSR0
mvn verify -DTARGET_PLATFORM_VERSION=4.21.3.Final-SNAPSHOT  #JunoSR1

This is now the default behaviour (-D flag not needed):

mvn verify -DTARGET_PLATFORM_VERSION=4.30.0.Alpha1-SNAPSHOT  #KeplerM4

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2.

Next week, I will be moving TARGET_PLATFORM_VERSION to 
4.30.1.Alpha1-SNAPSHOT, which will include updated Kepler M5 bits 
(including m2e/m2e-wtp updates).

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3.

In addition to moving to Kepler M5, I will also be removing UML2, 
Graphiti & Zest, which will hereinafter be included on the new JBTIS 
(Integration Stack, formerly SOA Tooling) target platform. This will be 
done for *BOTH JUNO and KEPLER TARGET PLATFORMS.*

If you are in charge of a JBoss Tools 4.1 or 4.0 (Core) project and need 
UML2, Graphiti, or Zest, let me know BEFORE next week, and we can 
discuss keeping those reqs in the target platform for your use. 
Otherwise I'll assume no one needs them, and they're safe to purge.

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Once the cruft has been cleaned, new TPs will be released & linked into 
the usual places [1], [2]:

4.20.6.Final-SNAPSHOT  #JunoSR0 (6th respin)
4.21.4.Final-SNAPSHOT  #JunoSR1 (4th respin)
4.30.1.Alpha1-SNAPSHOT  #KeplerSR0, 1rst respin

[1] http://download.jboss.org/jbosstools/updates/juno/
[2] http://download.jboss.org/jbosstools/updates/kepler/

By the way, if you're looking to pull a target platform site zip and use 
it locally, we've relocated them here:

http://download.jboss.org/jbosstools/targetplatforms/jbosstoolstarget/

Question, comments, fear & loathing, or any other feedback... send it here.

Cheers,

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