Revision as of 16:59, 3 March 2011

Minerva is the Maven version of Athena.

Building

To build the project from the command line after checking the code out, simply run

mvn -Dskip.ui.tests clean install

In Maven, the parent pom.xml serves as the central point on adding things to the build. It's also generally the most complicated piece of the build as it contains information that is shared by children pom.xml files.

The first part of the parent pom.xml we'll look at contains identifying information:

...
<groupId>org.aniszczyk.minerva</groupId>
<artifactId>minerva-parent</artifactId>
<version>1.0.0-SNAPSHOT</version>
<packaging>pom</packaging>

<name>Minvera Parent</name>
...

The second part contains profile information and where to get dependencies.

  <properties>
    <tycho-version>0.10.0</tycho-version>
    <platform-version-name>helios</platform-version-name>
    <eclipse-site>http://download.eclipse.org/releases/${platform-version-name}</eclipse-site>
    <wikitext-site>http://download.eclipse.org/tools/mylyn/update/weekly</wikitext-site>
    <swtbot-site>http://download.eclipse.org/technology/swtbot/${platform-version-name}/dev-build/update-site</swtbot-site>
  </properties>

  <profiles>
    <profile>
      <id>platform-helios</id>
      <activation>
        <property>
          <name>platform-version-name</name>
          <value>helios</value>
        </property>
      </activation>
      <properties>
        <eclipse-site>http://download.eclipse.org/releases/helios</eclipse-site>
        <platform-version>[3.6,3.7)</platform-version>
        <swtbot-site>http://download.eclipse.org/technology/swtbot/helios/dev-build/update-site</swtbot-site>
      </properties>
    </profile>
    <profile>
      <id>platform-indigo</id>
      <activation>
        <property>
          <name>platform-version-name</name>
          <value>indigo</value>
        </property>
      </activation>
      <properties>
        <eclipse-site>http://download.eclipse.org/releases/indigo</eclipse-site>
        <platform-version>[3.7,3.8)</platform-version>
        <swtbot-site>http://download.eclipse.org/technology/swtbot/indigo/dev-build/update-site</swtbot-site>
      </properties>
    </profile>
  </profiles>
...
  <repositories>
    <repository>
      <id>helios</id>
      <layout>p2</layout>
      <url>${eclipse-site}</url>
    </repository>
    <repository>
      <id>swtbot</id>
      <layout>p2</layout>
      <url>${swtbot-site}</url>
    </repository>
    <repository>
      <id>wikitext</id>
      <layout>p2</layout>
      <url>${wikitext-site}</url>
    </repository>
  </repositories>

The third part lists the modules (e.g., features, plug-ins) that are part of the build:

  <modules>
    <module>org.aniszczyk.minerva.core</module>
    <module>org.aniszczyk.minerva.ui</module>

    <module>org.aniszczyk.minerva-feature</module>
    <module>org.aniszczyk.minerva.source-feature</module>

    <module>org.aniszczyk.minerva.tests.core</module>
    <module>org.aniszczyk.minerva.tests.ui</module>

    <module>org.aniszczyk.minerva-updatesite</module>
   </modules>

Features

Features simply reference the parent pom and have a packaging attribute of eclipse-feature.

Here's a pom.xml snippet from the minerva feature:

  <parent>
    <groupId>org.aniszczyk.minerva</groupId>
    <artifactId>minerva-parent</artifactId>
    <version>1.0.0-SNAPSHOT</version>
  </parent>

  <artifactId>org.aniszczyk.minerva-feature</artifactId>
  <packaging>eclipse-feature</packaging>

  <name>Minerva Feature (Incubation)</name>

Plug-ins

Plug-ins simply reference the parent pom and have a packaging attribute of eclipse-plugin.

Here's a pom.xml snippet from the minerva core plug-in:

  <parent>
    <groupId>org.aniszczyk.minerva</groupId>
    <artifactId>minerva-parent</artifactId>
    <version>1.0.0-SNAPSHOT</version>
  </parent>

  <artifactId>org.aniszczyk.minerva.core</artifactId>
  <packaging>eclipse-plugin</packaging>

  <name>Minerva Core Plug-in</name>

Repositories (Update Sites)

Plug-ins simply reference the parent pom and have a packaging attribute of eclipse-update-site.

Here's a pom.xml snippet from the minerva site:

  <parent>
    <groupId>org.aniszczyk.minerva</groupId>
    <artifactId>minerva-parent</artifactId>
    <version>1.0.0-SNAPSHOT</version>
  </parent>

  <artifactId>org.aniszczyk.minerva-updatesite</artifactId>
  <packaging>eclipse-update-site</packaging>

Tests

TODO

Headless Tests

TODO

UI Tests

TODO

Documentation

TODO

Code Coverage

TODO

Signing

TODO

Publishing

TODO