Some years ago, I wrote a blog post about how to generate a P2 repository based on Maven artifacts. That described approach is obsolete nowadays and I'd like to show a new approach that is based on the p2-maven-plugin that was created to solve exactly this problem. P2-Maven-Plugin Integration in Maven Build Life Cycle …

A new version of this blog post is published under the title "Generate P2 Repository From Maven Artifacts in 2017" Motivation If you use Maven Tycho to build your Eclipse RCP application, you can use Maven dependencies as you know it from Maven (for more information see [1]). I notice that Tycho takes many …

I use Pax Runner to provisioning my OSGi applications. I want to use several OSGi applications on my test server. As soon as you start the second OSGi application provisioned by Pax Runner, you get the following exception: 1Exception in thread "main" java.lang.RuntimeException: org.ops4j.pax.runner.daemon.lock …

In my last post of this series, I described how to solve the dependency problem. In this post, I will describe how to build Eclipse Plugin and Eclipse Feature with Maven Tycho and which problems I have. POM Definition The procedure for both Eclipse artifacts is similar. In both, you have to insert a pom.xml and fill it …

This post series should not be a tutorial for Maven Tycho. You can find many tutorials on the web (see for example [2] and [3]). This post series should be a field report about the problems during the introduction of Maven Tycho. Why Maven Tycho? One requirement is that we can use Maven artifacts. So it seems obvious …

In the last weeks I familiarised myself with OSGi. Two books were very helpful: Modular Java: Creating Flexible Applications with OSGi and Spring by Craig Walls OSGi für Praktiker - Prinzipien, Werkzeuge und praktische Anleitungen auf dem Weg zur kleinen SOA by Bernd Weber, Patrick Baumgartner, Oliver Braun (in …