Posts tagged Tag 'Ant'

Build Scala projects with Eclipse Buckminster

In one of my previous posts I talked about how to build Scala projects with PDE Build. However, PDE Build is rather old and has long been superseded by Buckminster. The great advantage of Buckminster is that it is actually a lightweight Eclipse SDK with all that you need to build an RCP application: a workspace of projects, a target platform, and so on. To build Scala projects in Eclipse you will most likely install the Scala IDE. Unfortunately, this plug-in cannot be installed in Buckminster right away. But there is a workaround...
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Scala projects with Eclipse PDE Build (2)

Some time ago I wrote about how to let Eclipse PDE Build automatically compile Scala projects. Therefore a special Ant script (customBuildCallbacks.xml) had to be created in the project's root directory. This script looked for the Scala library and compiler and then built the project's source files.
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Scala projects with Eclipse PDE Build

PDE Build is the standard build tool from Eclipse. It is used to export OSGi bundles, plugins, features or products. Running in headless mode, PDE Build can be used for automatic builds without a GUI. The Scala IDE does not support PDE Build yet. In order to compile Scala projects you have to do some manual work.
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