缺少“eclipse-plugin”包装选项

Question

I' following a tutorial which deals with creating a java plugin and converting it to a maven project. One of the steps requires me to right click the plugin, pressing "configure" and selecting the "eclipse-plugin" packaging option:

The problem is, I don't have the "eclipse-plugin" packaging option:

Does anybody know why and what I should do to get it?

Answer 1

You have to enable Tycho first. Otherwise Maven don't know what a OSGi(=Eclipse) Bundle is. In your case, choose anything as package type (ie jar or whatever) and click "Finish". Afterwards edit the pom.xml and change the packaging type to "eclipse-plugin".

Enabling tycho (add this to your parent-pom):

   <properties>
      <tycho-version>0.23.1</tycho-version>
   </properties>

   <build>
      <plugins>
         <plugin>
            <groupId>org.eclipse.tycho</groupId>
            <artifactId>tycho-maven-plugin</artifactId>
            <version>${tycho-version}</version>
            <extensions>true</extensions>
         </plugin>
      </plugins>
   </build>

See: https://wiki.eclipse.org/Tycho/Reference_Card

By the way: Since Tycho 0.24.0 it's possible to build plugins/features without a pom (=pomless). If you want to learn more about check this site:

https://wiki.eclipse.org/Tycho/Release_Notes/0.24