When you face the task of building a Server-Side Equinox or a RAP application (which is just a Server-Side Equinox application) you need to choose a build system from a fairly diverse palette. This choice is never easy because every build system has its pros and cons. In the end it comes down to which one you and others, love or hate. To make this task...
Read MoreRecently I had the pleasure of updating the way Yoxos is built. Like a lot of Eclipse based applications, the Yoxos build was feature based and we naturally use the normal headless PDE/Build scripts to do this. To make things a little easier to extend, I decide to use the new product based builds (new is relative, as product builds have been around since about...
Read MoreYesterday I spent the day working on examples of how PDE Build can be used to build OSGi bundles. I was setting up builders, copying files from my workspace to my builder, and running builds. Early in the morning I was faced with the follow: The method disposeImageButtonImages(ImageButton) from the type ScaledWidgetFactory refers to the missing type ImageButton Ok, a compile error, no big deal...
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