Using maven dependencies on Eclipse plug-ins

Question

I would like to use a maven dependency in my Eclipse plug-in. What I've done so far is I added the dependency on my pom:

<dependency>
    <groupId>com.mandrillapp.wrapper.lutung</groupId>
    <artifactId>lutung</artifactId>
    <version>0.0.5</version>
</dependency>

And when I try to use the dependency I get the run time exception below (omitted the stack trace):

org.eclipse.e4.core.di.InjectionException: java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: com/microtripit/mandrillapp/lutung/MandrillApi
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Caused by: java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: com/microtripit/mandrillapp/lutung/MandrillApi
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Caused by: java.lang.ClassNotFoundException: com.microtripit.mandrillapp.lutung.MandrillApi cannot be found by myplugin_1.0.0.qualifier

How can I solve this issue?

Candie

The artifact you are referencing is not an OSGi bundle, so it cannot be used directly in a Tycho build. You need a separate build step first that converts the artifact to an OSGi bundle. – Perfect

@Perfect I see, how can i build one? I found an example on eclipse website but it only works with the given example library – Candie

Are you interested in OSGi wrappers in general, or do you only want to use the lutung library? This is not clear to me when reading the question. – Perfect

@Perfect in general, lutung was just an example. – Candie

You use pom-first approach or resolves dependencies trough MANIFEST.MF files ? – Brainard