Eclipse RCP - all possibilities to define dependencies?

Question

Is there somewhere a list of all possibilities, to define dependencies in an Eclipse RCP project? maybe filtered by resources?

Possible dependencies:

• from other Eclipse RCP Plugins
• by package, without explicitely defining the plugin
• jar libs
• ...

Imparity

Am not sure what you mean with filtering by resources? Can you please elaborate a little more on that. – Lui

I am not sure Skip is active user. I started bounty in hope to get detailed answer about dependencies in an Eclipse RCP in general. – Waylin

Good links are wanted. – Waylin

Hey Paul, I am now a little bit more expirienced with RCP - today, if I find some time - I will write down in detail what I found out about dependencies. – Imparity

Answer 1

as you said, you can use the following directives in the MANIFEST.MF to define dependencies

• Require-Bundle (for depending on specified bundles)
• Import-Package (for depending on packages available by export from other bundles)
• Bundle-Classpath (for embedded paths(!) and JARs)

also, when you create a Fragment, it must define its Fragment-Host, of course, and that is also a dependency in a sense

in an RCP project you can setup Features, and you can specify dependencies to bundles for your RCP app in these features

Lanlana

Is MANIFEST.MF the only place to define dependencies, even with Tycho? – Waylin

@PaulV with Tycho you also have the option to use POMs dependencies section when using tychos <pomDependencies>consider</pomDependencies> but I had mixed experiences with that approach - as far as I know, it's best to rely on MANIFEST.MF and target definition when using tycho – Lui

@PaulV some helpful links: vogella.com/articles/EclipseTycho/article.html vogella.com/tutorials.html wiki.osgi.org/wiki/MavenTychoEclipsePDEToolchain github.com/jglander/tycho-extras/tree/p2_extras_plugin/review-1/… github.com/reficio/p2-maven-plugin docs.sonatype.org/display/TYCHO/… – Lui

@PaulV some more links: eclipse.org/tycho/documentation.php eclipsesource.com/blogs/2012/08/26/… wiki.eclipse.org/Tycho/Reference_Card – Lui

@Joerg Thank you so much. Why you just don't update you answer, it will be more readable. – Waylin