Example Eclipse 4 RCP App build with Tycho

Setup

1. Eclipse 21.06 RCP with e4 Tools installed

2. Maven.
   This project was created and tested with maven 3.6.1.
   Optionally you can use docker by invoking mvnOnDocker.cmd on windows

3. Basic RCP App:

   • e.app - Application plugin
   • e.feature - feature definition
   • e.plugin - E4-Contribution plugin
   • e.product - product definition, feature based
   • e.service - OSGI Service bundle (DS)
   • target-platform - target platform

Usage

1. clone repo

2. run mvn clean verify in root of the cloned repository

   1. you must use either most recent or a LTS java version (e.g. Java 11)
   2. if you have docker installed use mvnOnDocker.cmd on windows

3. you will find the product in ./example.product/target/products
   unzip and run eclipse.exe

Notes

This is tycho pomless build, which means there is only one mandatory pom.xml in project root and an additional extensions.xml in .mvn folder.

Features and target platform seem also to be mandatory for a working tycho build.

Acknowledgements

Commmand line build for Eclipse plug-ins, OSGi bundles and Eclipse applications with Maven Tycho - Tutorial