How do I use Jazz tasks with org.eclipse.ant.core.antRunner?
Hi all,
I am trying to build my first plug-in using the Jazz build system and tasks but I cannot get the PDE build to recognize the Jazz ant tasks. From debugging, I can see the message below: !ENTRY org.eclipse.ant.core 4 3 2007-06-05 12:11:29.562 !MESSAGE The library "ant_tasks/build-ant.jar" specified from "com.ibm.team.build.toolkit" for the antTasks or antTypes extension does not exist It seems that the com.ibm.team.build.toolkit jar's plugin.xml specifies some extra classpath about an ant_tasks/build-ant.jar, but I cannot actually find this jar anywhere. If I invoke a request a regular ant build the Jazz tasks do resolve and run properly, however, if I go that route that classpath does not have PDE tasks so I can't build my plug-in. I hope I have made my problem clear and that someone can assist me with this. I mean, surely someone else must have built plug-ins using the Jazz task with PDE build. Heck, I'd bet that's how Jazz itself is built. ;) Thanks. Regards, Rem |
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Remy,
It sounds like you've tried to deploy the com.ibm.team.build.toolkit jar inside the client plugins directory for TeamConcert. Is that true? If so...the build toolkit is not intended to be installed in IDE...that's why it's not already included in there and why you are receiving the error you are seeing. We've debated including it(see 18563) but currently it's not supported. We do use ant and PDE build to build Jazz but we don't use AntRunner to invoke the ant script...just straight ant. Thanks, D. "Remy Chi Jian Suen" <remsuen@ca.ibm.com> wrote in message news:f441q6$5fb$1@localhost.localdomain... Hi all, |
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Hi Donald,
Thanks for the information, yes, that's what I was trying to do. I was told by a coworker that not using AntRunner/PDEBuild is tough/unwise (from his past experiences of building plug-ins), but I guess TeamConcert is doing things differently. Is there a sample snippet of an Ant file that has the PDE and Jazz tasks configured properly anywhere that I can paste into my build file? Thanks. Regards, Rem Donald Weinand wrote: Remy, |
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I referred to the wrong defect related to including the toolkit plugin in
the client. It's 18559. 18563 is just a related issue. Thanks, D. "Donald Weinand" <dmweinan@us.ibm.com> wrote in message news:f44b3q$9im$1@localhost.localdomain... Remy, |
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Well, the reverse of this of putting PDE Build-related jars one by one
into the \tc\buildsystem\buildtoolkit\ folder doesn't seem to fly since the export task seems to call something within PDE's internal activator class with a getDefault() and that returns a null since it's not being activated (as this is straight ant and not in an OSGi context). :/ Can anyone provide any tips and hints? Thank you very much. Regards, Rem |
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Just to clarify a little further...we do use AntRunner to invoke the actual
build of the plugins...it's just not driving the entire build. AntRunner is invoked within the outer ant build to compile the plugins and put the output in a specified location. The outer ant build then uses the Jazz ant tasks to publish to the repository the output created by PDEBuild . We'll try to create a simple working example for you. Thanks, Don "Remy Chi Jian Suen" <remsuen@ca.ibm.com> wrote in message news:f44dai$aaf$1@localhost.localdomain... Hi Donald, |
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Thanks for the snippet, Donald. PDE build is rather confusing and I've
been fighting it for a while and have not been able to get it working. I'm manually generating build scripts from within PDE instead of having them generated on the fly at the moment. Please do let me know when there is a working example. Thank you very much! Regards, Rem Donald Weinand wrote: Here's a little ant snippet that may help you until we get a chance to |
Thanks for the snippet, launching AntRunner is basically like
java.exe -jar jazz/client/eclipse/plugins/org.eclipse.equinox.launcher_1.0.0.v20070606.jar -data workspace -application org.eclipse.ant.core.antRunner -file test.xml Regards, Sri. Donald Weinand wrote: Here's a little ant snippet that may help you until we get a chance to |
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