[Hibernate-issues] [Hibernate-JIRA] Created: (HBX-709) Start distributing an eclipse Hibernate Tools runtime only JAR

[Darryl M. (JIRA) <no...@at...>]

Start distributing an eclipse Hibernate Tools runtime only JAR
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         Key: HBX-709
         URL: http://opensource.atlassian.com/projects/hibernate/browse/HBX-709
     Project: Hibernate Tools
        Type: Task

    Reporter: Darryl Miles


http://forum.hibernate.org/viewtopic.php?t=962374

Start to pickup and use Eclipse/WTP versioning within the features.xml/

Plan of action as I see it:
 * Copy features/org.eclipse.* and features.org.apache.* files as well as pre-requisite plugins/* when packaging.
 * Move <plugin ...> into <import ...> in features/org.hibernate.eclipse.feature_3.2.0.beta6a/feature.xml (see attached sample of this working for me)
 * Modify build and packaging process to now create two JARs.
   JAR one contains (this is the runtime only JAR):
    features/org.hibernate.eclipse.feature*
    plugins/org.hibernate.eclipse*
    plugins/org.jboss.ide.eclipse.freemarker*

  JAR two contains (this is the equivalent of what is distrubuted now, hibernate tools, with WTP/XSD/GEF/JEM pre-requisites, without Eclipse Platform)
    All the files in JAR one above, plus
    plugins/org.eclipse.gef*
    plugins/org.eclipse.wst.xml_core.feature.*
    plugins/org.eclipse.wst.common_core.feature*
    plugins/org.eclipse.wst.common_ui.feature*
    plugins/org.apache.xerces.feature*
    plugins/org.eclipse.xsd*
    plugins/org.eclipse.jem*
    plugins/org.eclipse.wst.xml_ui.feature*
    plugins/org.eclipse.emf*
    features/org.eclipse.gef*
    features/org.eclipse.wst.xml_core.feature_*
    features/org.eclipse.wst.common_core.feature_*
    features/org.eclipse.wst.common_ui.feature_*
    features/org.apache.xerces.feature_*
    features/org.eclipse.xsd_*
    features/org.eclipse.jem_*
    features/org.eclipse.wst.xml_ui.feature_*
    features/org.eclipse.emf_*

By removing the <plugin ..> declarations from the hibernate JAR it stops the JAR claiming it is the authorative source for that plugin to the update manager.  By including the original features/ files from the original authorative source means that if a user installs pre-requisites (or has pre-requisites already installed) when they use JAR two, and restart Eclipse will automatically pickup and use the lastest installed version of WTP/XSD/EMF/GEF/JEM compatible with hibernate tools.

This has the effect is automatically upgrading the version of pre-requisites when multiple versions are found.  But in the event the users version of pre-requisites is too old or non-existant then the ones in the JAR two will be picked up and used.


If the re-packaged version of freemarker is also being used inside other JBOSS plugins, then I would suggest a seperate feature/org.jboss.ide.eclipse.freemarker*/feature.xml be provided and all plugins built on top are then to pickup that with an <import ...> declaration.  If hibernate tools is the only user of freemarker then leading it inside hibernate tools is fine.


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