Voluteer to build OpenJPA Eclipse plugin

[Pinaki Poddar <pp...@apache.org>]

Hi,
  I have a Eclipse plugin for OpenJPA available. The plugin can be
downloaded from an update site [1]. Some people have used the plugin and
found it working. It perhaps will make sense as a "contribution" without
burdening OpenJPA's normal build process on strong dependency to Eclipse
libraries (which, by the way, are not in maven repository).
  Now the problem is building it. Given that 
  i) this plugin/feature/update site are new territory for me
  ii) I do not currently have much bandwidth 
 iii) my maven skills are minimal 
   
    -- will some maven expert volunteer to build it? 
  
  If I get a response, I will to donate the source code (which now lives on
a flash drive) as a OpenJPA contribution. 

[1] http://people.apache.org/~ppoddar/eclipse
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Re: Voluteer to build OpenJPA Eclipse plugin

[Pinaki Poddar <pp...@apache.org>]

Hi Donald,
  Thanks for your help.
  
  The plugin was built in Eclipse PDE environment with lot of mouse clicks
whose full impact remained bit of a mystery to me. Effectively there are
three 'Eclipse Projects' for the plugin + feature + site. While 'plugin
project' has the actual source code, the other two projects contain mainly
configuration files. To built via maven -- what is the suggested source code
directory tree structure? Is there some archetype available?
  This article [1] addresses quite a few issues (with their solutions), some
of which made me abandon my attempt to build the plugin using maven. The
authors make it apparent that the process of builing Eclipse plugin with
maven is quite involved. Hopefully, borrowing some of the experience of
Geronimo subproject you mentioned will be handy. 
  
[1]
http://www.eclipse.org/articles/article.php?file=Article-Eclipse-and-Maven2/index.html


Donald Woods wrote:
> 
> I'd be happy to help out.  We have a similar setup in Geronimo for our 
> Devtools, where it is a subproject with it's own build.
> 
> 
> -Donald
> 
> 
> Pinaki Poddar wrote:
>> Hi,
>>   I have a Eclipse plugin for OpenJPA available. The plugin can be
>> downloaded from an update site [1]. Some people have used the plugin and
>> found it working. It perhaps will make sense as a "contribution" without
>> burdening OpenJPA's normal build process on strong dependency to Eclipse
>> libraries (which, by the way, are not in maven repository).
>>   Now the problem is building it. Given that 
>>   i) this plugin/feature/update site are new territory for me
>>   ii) I do not currently have much bandwidth 
>>  iii) my maven skills are minimal 
>>    
>>     -- will some maven expert volunteer to build it? 
>>   
>>   If I get a response, I will to donate the source code (which now lives
>> on
>> a flash drive) as a OpenJPA contribution. 
>> 
>> [1] http://people.apache.org/~ppoddar/eclipse
> 
> 


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Re: Voluteer to build OpenJPA Eclipse plugin

[Donald Woods <dw...@apache.org>]

I'd be happy to help out.  We have a similar setup in Geronimo for our 
Devtools, where it is a subproject with it's own build.


-Donald


Pinaki Poddar wrote:
> Hi,
>   I have a Eclipse plugin for OpenJPA available. The plugin can be
> downloaded from an update site [1]. Some people have used the plugin and
> found it working. It perhaps will make sense as a "contribution" without
> burdening OpenJPA's normal build process on strong dependency to Eclipse
> libraries (which, by the way, are not in maven repository).
>   Now the problem is building it. Given that 
>   i) this plugin/feature/update site are new territory for me
>   ii) I do not currently have much bandwidth 
>  iii) my maven skills are minimal 
>    
>     -- will some maven expert volunteer to build it? 
>   
>   If I get a response, I will to donate the source code (which now lives on
> a flash drive) as a OpenJPA contribution. 
> 
> [1] http://people.apache.org/~ppoddar/eclipse