Build Technologies

Technology List

The following is a list of build technologies and related acronyms:

CBI - Common Build Infrastructure. A recommendation of best of breed build technology for building Eclipse projects.
LTS - Long Term Support. A program aimed at creating a marketplace of organizations consuming and offering support for Eclipse Technologies.
Tycho - a set of plugins for Maven that teach it new packaging targets for OSGi/Eclipse and how to understand build information in manifest.mf files
Maven - A build engine and build dependency/output management system.
Nexus - A build dependency/output management system evolved from Maven.
Tesla - A build engine evolved from Maven.
Hudson - A Continuous integration server for scheduling & running builds, distributing output, etc.
Jenkins - A community based fork of Hudson.
Equinox p2 - Provisioning technology for OSGi-based applications
b3 - Technology for building and assembling Eclipse software software/update sites
Buckminster - Technology for building and assembling Eclipse software software/update sites
Orbit - Provides bundled versions (including historical versions) of third party libraries that are approved for use in Eclipse projects.