Eclipse p2 automated plugin build for continious integration

Posted on March 24, 2010

Eclipse is big, so it took me a while to figure out hot to do headless build and release of eclipse plug-ins. So here is the ant script that will do that. Run it with

java -Drepo.dir=file:///usr/local/tomcat/webapps/eclipse/ -jar  /opt/eclipse-rcp-galileo-SR2/plugins/org.eclipse.equinox.launcher_1.0.201.R35x_v20090715.jar  -application org.eclipse.ant.core.antRunner -v -buildfile build.xml

build.xml

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?>

<project name="aseg-plugins-update-site" basedir="." default="all">

 <property name="buildDirectory" value="${basedir}/build"/>

 <property name="builder" value="${basedir}"/>

 <property name="baseLocation" value="${eclipse.home}"/>

 <property name="buildType" value="I"/>

 <property name="buildId" value="aseg"/>

 <property name="buildLabel" value="${buildType}.${buildId}"/>

 <property name="collectingFolder" value="${buildType}.${buildId}"/>

 <property name="javacVerbose" value="true"/>

 <property name="javacDebugInfo" value="true"/>

 <property name="javacFailOnError" value="true"/>

 <property name="javacSource" value="1.6"/>

 <property name="javacTarget" value="1.6"/>

 <property name="fautureName" value="SE_Advisor_Client"/>

 <property name="repoName" value="ASEG"/>

 <!-- todo: pluginPath to avoid copy to builddir -->

 <tstamp/>

 <target name="all">

 <antcall target="clean"/>

 <antcall target="resolve"/>

 <antcall target="init"/>

 <antcall target="buildScript"/>

 <antcall target="compile"/>

 <antcall target="assemble"/>

 <antcall target="package"/>

 <antcall target="updateFuture"/>

 <antcall target="addCategories"/>

 </target>

 <target name="clean">

 <delete dir="${buildDirectory}"/>

 <delete dir="${buildLabel}"/>

 </target>

 <target name="resolve">

 <ant dir="../SE-Advisor Eclipse Plug-in" antfile="resolve.xml" target="resolve"/>

 <ant dir="../SE-Advisor Eclipse Query UI" antfile="resolve.xml"  target="resolve"/>

 <ant dir="../Freemarker" antfile="resolve.xml"  target="resolve"/>

 <ant dir="../ca.concordia.cs.aseg.seadvisor" antfile="resolve.xml"  target="resolve"/>

 </target>

 <target name="init">

 <mkdir dir="${buildDirectory}" />

 <mkdir dir="${buildDirectory}/plugins" />

 <mkdir dir="${buildDirectory}/features" />

 <copy todir="${buildDirectory}/plugins" overwrite="false" verbose="false">

 <fileset dir="../">

 <exclude name="**/bin/**" />

 <include name="SE-Advisor Eclipse Plug-in/**" />

 <include name="SE-Advisor Eclipse Query UI/**" />

 <include name="ca.concordia.cs.aseg.seadvisor/**" />

 <include name="Freemarker/**" />

 </fileset>

 </copy>

 <copy todir="${buildDirectory}/features">

 <fileset dir="../">

 <include name="SE-Advisor Eclipse Feature/**" />

 </fileset>

 </copy>

 </target>

 <target name="buildScript" depends="">

 <eclipse.buildScript

 elements="feature@${fautureName}"

 buildDirectory="${buildDirectory}"

 children="true"

 recursiveGeneration="true"

 parallelcompilation="false"

 outputupdatejars="true"

 groupconfiguration="false"

 flattendependencies="true"

 generateversionslists="true"

 baselocation="${eclipse.home}"

 />

 </target>

 <target name="compile">

 <ant dir="${buildDirectory}" antfile="compile.${fautureName}.xml"/>

 <fail>

 <condition>

 <isset property="compilation.error.occured"/>

 </condition>

 </fail>

 </target>

 <target name="assemble">

 <ant dir="${buildDirectory}/" antfile="assemble.${fautureName}.xml"/>

 </target>

 <target name="package">

 <ant antfile="${buildDirectory}/package.${fautureName}.xml" />

 </target>

 <target name="updateFuture">

 <p2.publish.featuresAndBundles

 metadataRepository="${repo.dir}"

 artifactRepository="${repo.dir}"

 metadataRepositoryName="${repoName}"

 artifactRepositoryName="${repoName}"

 compress="false"

 publishArtifacts="true"

 append="true"

 source="${buildDirectory}">

 </p2.publish.featuresAndBundles>

 </target>

 <target name="addCategories">

 <java classname="org.eclipse.equinox.launcher.Main">

 <arg value="-application"/>

 <arg value="org.eclipse.equinox.p2.publisher.CategoryPublisher"/>

 <arg value="-metadataRepository"/>

 <arg value="${repo.dir}"/>

 <arg value="-categoryDefinition"/>

 <arg value="../SE-Advisor Eclipse Update Site/category.xml"/>

 </java>

 </target>

</project>

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