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Open source headless builder plugin for Eclipse is released
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Open source headless builder plugin for Eclipse is released
We have faced the problem of building our application on our continuous integration server. It was a pain to write separate ant build scripts, because all information is already present in the eclipse environment, so nobody is interested in synchronizing hundreds of eclipse projects build path settings to build scripts.
Usually builds will start with checking out the project folders from source code management system into a "to be workspace" root folder. What you can use headlesseclipse for after checkout (the arguments of the program one by one):
import - creates an Eclipse workspace from the root folder, and imports all of the subfolders as Eclipse projects
clean - calls the clean build on every project. It is often useful, if we reuse the workspace
build - Builds all projects using incremental building. After a clean, or for the first time, a full build will be run. It runs Ant builders correctly. The console of the Ant builders are also dumped to system out
exportwars - This will export all dynamic web projects to a war file in the workspace root directory as .war. They are ready to deploy!
These are the main features currently. We plan to implement server creation, publish, export jars and ears, running unit tests.
Source:
http://www.theserverside.com/news/thread.tss?thread_id=58304
Usually builds will start with checking out the project folders from source code management system into a "to be workspace" root folder. What you can use headlesseclipse for after checkout (the arguments of the program one by one):
import - creates an Eclipse workspace from the root folder, and imports all of the subfolders as Eclipse projects
clean - calls the clean build on every project. It is often useful, if we reuse the workspace
build - Builds all projects using incremental building. After a clean, or for the first time, a full build will be run. It runs Ant builders correctly. The console of the Ant builders are also dumped to system out
exportwars - This will export all dynamic web projects to a war file in the workspace root directory as .war. They are ready to deploy!
These are the main features currently. We plan to implement server creation, publish, export jars and ears, running unit tests.
Source:
http://www.theserverside.com/news/thread.tss?thread_id=58304
