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Subject: RE: Ch-ch-ch-changes...
Date: Fri, 3 Nov 2006 16:46:50 +0100
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From: "LECAN Damien" <Damien.LECAN@B2i.fr>
To: <felix-dev@incubator.apache.org>

> Correct me if I am wrong, but isn't the maven-eclipse-plugin the
> generator of Eclipse project metadata files from pom.xml ? If so, this
> has nothing to do with either of the other plugins.
You're right, but Eclipse provides a full OSGi development environment. =
So Maven has to try to integrate with it for OSGi development (e.g. =
maven-eclipse-plugin generates the bundle manifest ...)
Look at
http://docs.codehaus.org/display/MAVEN/Maven+and+Eclipse
http://jira.codehaus.org/browse/MECLIPSE-92


> BTW: It would of course be nice, if it would be possible to use maven
> to build and packeg Eclipse plugins and features. But to my knowledge,
> this is still on the TODO of the Eclipse/Equinox team.
This seems to be done by Maven team instead
http://jira.codehaus.org/secure/IssueNavigator.jspa?reset=3Dtrue&&pid=3D1=
1133&component=3D12260&sorter/field=3Dpriority&sorter/order=3DDESC


Damien