Resolve required JAR dependencies from a public maven repo

[bwolff]

Currently, the plugin bundles the requires RWT/JFace JAR files, because the latest RWT 2.0 milestones are currently not available via a public repo. This is not very flexible and doesn't allow RWT version changes without releasing a new plugin version.

The problem is that only the RWT release version are distributed in the maven central. I'll have to issue a bug request against RAP to discuss if it would be possible to also release the milestones into maven central.

It is desirable to use a maven repo because Grails supports resolution of the dependenies out of the box.

Here is the list of bundles that are required and that need to be compatible between each other:

• org.eclipse.core.commands
• org.eclipse.core.runtime
• org.eclipse.equinox.common
• org.eclipse.rap.jface
• org.eclipse.rap.rwt

[bwolff]

I created a RAP bug report about this: https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=396122

[bwolff]

Thanks to the RAP guys the RWT/JFace bundles are not resolved from the maven central:

compile('org.eclipse.rap:org.eclipse.rap.rwt:2.0.0')
compile('org.eclipse.rap:org.eclipse.rap.jface:2.0.0')
compile('org.eclipse.rap:org.eclipse.rap.jface.databinding:2.0.0')

This allows to override these dependencies in the future in the application that uses the plugin. For example, the 2.1 milestone releases are already available.

Unfortunately, some JAR dependencies that are required by JFace still need to be packaged with the plugin. These dependencies are not available in any public maven repo in the required version. At least I didn't find them.

org.eclipse.core.commands:3.6.1
org.eclipse.core.runtime:3.9.0
org.eclipse.equinox.common:3.6.100

So if a future release of RWT requires a new version the plugin needs to be updated :/.