Makes the TP values into properties for use in target-platform pom

* Disable the attachment of the teiid-designer.target platform since its
  identical to the target platform configuration now downloaded via mvn

* The generation of the teiid-designer.target can remain since devs can use
  this for specifying their TP in eclipse IDE

* Adds a README for developers to understand how to create a .target file
  for use with eclipse IDE

pom.xml

@@ -19,6 +19,13 @@
 
 		<!-- Specify our own TP using the JBT-IS rather than using the definition in the parent pom -->
 		<no-target-platform>true</no-target-platform>
+
+		<td.tpc.groupId>org.jboss.tools.integration-stack</td.tpc.groupId>
+		<td.tpc.artifactId>target-platform</td.tpc.artifactId>
+		<td.tpc.version>4.1.8.Final</td.tpc.version>
+		<td.tpc.type>target</td.tpc.type>
+		<td.tpc.classifier>base</td.tpc.classifier>
+
 	</properties>
 
 	<modules>
@@ -60,11 +67,12 @@
 								<echo>project.build.directory: ${project.build.directory}</echo>
 								<echo>eclipse.tycho.version: ${tychoVersion}</echo>
 								<echo>eclipse.target.version: ${targetEclipseVersion}</echo>
-								<echo>eclipse.target.platform.groupId: ${tpc.groupId}</echo>
-								<echo>eclipse.target.platform.group: ${tpc.group}</echo>
-								<echo>eclipse.target.platform.version: ${tpc.version}</echo>
-								<echo>eclipse.target.platform.kind: ${tpc.targetKind}</echo>
-								<echo>NOT.using.target.platform: ${no-target-platform}</echo>
+								<echo>not.using.jbt.parent.pom.tp: ${no-target-platform}</echo>
+								<echo>teiid.designer.tp.group.id: ${td.tpc.groupId}</echo>
+								<echo>teiid.designer.tp.artifact.id: ${td.tpc.artifactId}</echo>
+								<echo>teiid.designer.tp.version: ${td.tpc.version}</echo>
+								<echo>teiid.designer.tp.type: ${td.tpc.type}</echo>
+								<echo>teiid.designer.tp.classifier: ${td.tpc.classifier}</echo>
 							</target>
 						</configuration>
 					</execution>
@@ -80,11 +88,11 @@
 					<ignoreTychoRepositories>true</ignoreTychoRepositories>
 					<target>
 						<artifact>
-							<groupId>org.jboss.tools.integration-stack</groupId>
-							<artifactId>target-platform</artifactId>
-							<version>4.1.8.Final</version>
-							<type>target</type>
-							<classifier>base</classifier>
+							<groupId>${td.tpc.groupId}</groupId>
+							<artifactId>${td.tpc.artifactId}</artifactId>
+							<version>${td.tpc.version}</version>
+							<type>${td.tpc.type}</type>
+							<classifier>${td.tpc.classifier}</classifier>
 						</artifact>
 					</target>
 				</configuration>

target-platform/.gitignore

@@ -1 +1 @@
-target
+teiid-designer.target

target-platform/README

@@ -0,0 +1,17 @@
+Creating a target platform for use in Eclipse Development
+
+The Teiid Designer target platform (TP) is now the JBossTools Integration Stack base target (JBT-IS TP)
+and as such is direclty referenced by maven when performing builds.
+
+Developers, on the Teiid Designer project seeking to develop the codebase, should in the target-platform
+directory, execute either
+
+ - build.sh
+ - build.bat
+
+which will in turn execute maven with the generate-target profile located in the target-platform/pom.xml.
+This will create the following:
+
+ - teiid-designer.target
+
+which can be opened in eclipse and set as its target platform. 

target-platform/pom.xml

@@ -14,8 +14,15 @@
 	<packaging>pom</packaging>
 
 	<build>
+		<!--
+				Commented out as no longer required since we can build
+				directly from JBT-IS using the target-platform config
+				specified in our parent pom. The teiid-designer.target
+				will remain to serve as a platform easily available to
+				developers loading the TP into an eclipse IDE.
+		-->
 		<plugins>
-			<!-- Attach the designer target to the configuration -->
+			<!--
 			<plugin>
 				<groupId>org.codehaus.mojo</groupId>
 				<artifactId>build-helper-maven-plugin</artifactId>
@@ -39,6 +46,7 @@
 					</execution>
 				</executions>
 			</plugin>
+			-->
 		</plugins>
 	</build>
 
@@ -62,11 +70,11 @@
 								<configuration>
 									<artifactItems>
 										<artifactItem>
-											<groupId>org.jboss.tools.integration-stack</groupId>
-											<artifactId>target-platform</artifactId>
-											<version>4.1.8.Final</version>
-											<classifier>base</classifier>
-											<type>target</type>
+											<groupId>${td.tpc.groupId}</groupId>
+											<artifactId>${td.tpc.artifactId}</artifactId>
+											<version>${td.tpc.version}</version>
+											<type>${td.tpc.type}</type>
+											<classifier>${td.tpc.classifier}</classifier>
 											<overWrite>true</overWrite>
 											<outputDirectory>${basedir}</outputDirectory>
 											<destFileName>teiid-designer.target</destFileName>