How to build an Eclipse plugin with maven?

Question

How do you build an Eclipse plugin with Maven? What dependencies or plugins do I need? I am looking to develop for Eclipse 3.7.

Answer 1

You can use Maven 3.3 (at least) and Maven Tycho 0.24.0. Add this to your project's .mvn/extensions.xml:

<extensions>   <extension>     <groupId>org.eclipse.tycho.extras</groupId>     <artifactId>tycho-pomless</artifactId>     <version>0.26.0</version>   </extension> </extensions> 

Then you must define your pom.xml according to the structure of your project. I recommend this article: Eclipse Tycho for building Eclipse Plug-ins, OSGi bundles and RCP applications - Tutorial

You can follow the example on this page to have a general idea of using maven plugin Tycho.