Hands-On: Using the new Common Builder for Push-Button PDE Builds

Nick Boldt (Red Hat, Inc.), Andrew Overholt, Andrew Niefer (IBM)

Eclipse Ecosystem - Emerging Technology · Tutorial - 4 hours
Monday, 08:00, 4 hours | Room 201

Nick Boldt

Andrew Overholt

Andrew Niefer

This workshop explores the new Athena Common Builder project within the Dash Technology project at Eclipse.org. During the workshop, participants learn:

a little about how PDE works and why it's the best option for building Eclipse plugins and projects
how to set up their .releng project & pass that to the Common Builder
how to define what feature(s) to build, what version of source to use, how to build & how to package

Participants should come with a machine set up with Eclipse 3.5M6, a 5.0 or 6.0 JDK, Ant 1.7.1 and Ant-Contrib 1.0b2 (not 1.0b3) installed. Fedora or equivalent Linux distro is recommended (for maximum effect), but WinXP and Mac OS X 10.5 are acceptable too.

Agenda

PDE Build
- Exercise: Build a Feature
- Exercise: Generate a p2 Repository
Common Build Background
Dash Athena
- Exercise: Setup
- Exercise: Configure, Run, Troubleshoot
- Exercise: Verify Build
Meet Hudson
BYO Build Clinic

Slides & exercises now available! Updated, including PDF slides: org.eclipse.dash.common.releng.tutorial_20090324_1032.zip

Nick Boldt is a release engineer with JBoss, a division of Red Hat, and an Eclipse committer for Modeling, PDT, GEF & Dash, the home of the new Common Builder. He currently manages the release engineering infrastructure for over two dozen individual component builds @ Eclipse.

When not at the console blogging or scripting, Nick can be found outdoors walking his two American Pointers, cycling, or kayaking on Lake Ontario.

Andrew Overholt works for Red Hat as a part of their Tools group. He is the project lead for the Linux Tools project which is a part of the eclipse.org Technology top-level project.

Andrew is a developer with IBM Rational Software in the Ottawa lab and is a commiter on the PDE Build, Equinox Framework and Equinox p2 projects. Before joining the Eclipse platform team, he worked on the Eclipse CDT project. Andrew holds a BMath degree from the University of Waterloo.