Hi
I want to invoke the export to xml function of eclipse programatically to create the build.xml files, so that it can be in a continuous integration process.
Is there an easy way to do it, without opening Eclipse?
Thanks, Aakash
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A:
org.eclipse.pde.build contributes an ant task "eclipse.buildScript" which generates the build.xml scripts that are using in export and headless pde builds.
There are quite a few properties that serve as inputs to this task. The simplest way to call it directly from the command line would be something like:
eclipse -application org.eclipse.ant.core.antRunner -f plugins/org.eclipse.pde.build_3.5.0.v20090521-1730/scripts/genericTargets.xml generateScript
You would also need to pass a bunch of -Dproperty=value arguments to set the input properties. It might be simpler to write a wrapper build.xml script that you would run using the antRunner, in that case, the genericTargets.xml script would be located at ${eclipse.pdebuild.scripts}/genericTargets.xml.
There is some documentation on the task here. This is used as part of the larger automated build support provided by pde.build, docs for that start here.
Andrew Niefer
2009-05-27 19:33:58
Sorry, due to some unforeseen delay, I was not able to look into this earlier. Now, I am back at the same problem :)It seems that this task only works for plugins and features, which I don't have. I have a normal Java project, with a .project and a .classpath file. How do I generate the ant file for this project?Is there a special type and id, in the type@id input to the task?ThanksAakash
Aakash
2009-06-29 15:19:55
This task generates classpaths according to the MANIFEST.MF. It doesn't work for normal java projects. I don't know if there is anything that generates build.xml for regular java projects. There is an <eclipse.incrementalBuild/> (http://help.eclipse.org/galileo/index.jsp?topic=/org.eclipse.platform.doc.isv/guide/ant_eclipse_tasks.htm) which will run the workspace builder from ant.
Andrew Niefer
2009-06-29 17:36:26