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

[Max Rydahl Andersen]

> On 09/07/2014, at 14.38, phantomjinx <p.g.richardson at phantomjinx.co.uk> wrote:
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> On 07/04/2014 05:01 PM, Max Rydahl Andersen wrote:
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>>>> 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.
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>> ..isn't that what the tycho-m2 plugin does for you ?
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> Well I am no expert in tycho so I may be wrong or not-up-to-date but no tycho cannot help.
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> 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


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