I am building a plugin for Eclipse – but as we use Maven as a standard build platform I would like to be able to build the plugin using Maven.
I have found a previous question about using Maven with Eclipse Plugins – but as it is a year old I thought it was worthwhile collecting some new answers:
Is it currently possible to build Eclipse Plugins by Maven AND have nice IDE Integration?
It seems that Tycho has not been driven forward much in the last year – but has anything else been created that fulfils this need or is there an easier way?
Does anyone recommend still the Maven PDE plugin? Is this a cumbersome solution as it is just a wrapper for ANT scripts?
I’m on the Tycho mailing list and I see plenty of feedback that suggests that people are successfully building plug-ins using Maven. My current project isn’t doing OSGi development, so I can’t vouch from personal experience with the latest version of Tycho. It’s also worth pointing out that Tycho currently supports (to the best of my knowledge) a manifest-first approach to building plug-ins (as apposed to POM-first) – this might be a factor in deciding if Maven/Tycho fits your project.