Almost two years have passed since my blog post about the the discrepancy of OSGi/p2 on the one side and Maven on the other. At that time I was pessimistic that the two worlds would ever come together and the creation of the B3 project even reinforced that impression.
Nonetheless I followed Sonatypes efforts on the Tycho front during the last year, which looked very promising. It actually already works so well that I recently changed the build of openHAB from Maven2/PaxConstruct to Maven3/Tycho - it's really cool (a blog post with details will follow soon).
Seeing that Chris Aniszczyk has now also embraced Tycho for the JGit/EGit builds is a clear sign that Tycho (and thus Maven) is slowly being picked up in the Eclipse space.
And the best news: Tycho has just been proposed as an Eclipse project! As the proposal states, it "competes with these [Buckminster, B3, PDE Build and Athena] projects". But seeing its current stability, its ease-of-use and all its possible synergies with the existing Maven tooling, I am pretty sure that it will win the race for being the preferred future build infrastructure for Eclipse/OSGi projects.
Kudos to Sonatype, who really put a lot of effort into this and who has torn down the barriers between the two worlds!
Nonetheless I followed Sonatypes efforts on the Tycho front during the last year, which looked very promising. It actually already works so well that I recently changed the build of openHAB from Maven2/PaxConstruct to Maven3/Tycho - it's really cool (a blog post with details will follow soon).
Seeing that Chris Aniszczyk has now also embraced Tycho for the JGit/EGit builds is a clear sign that Tycho (and thus Maven) is slowly being picked up in the Eclipse space.
And the best news: Tycho has just been proposed as an Eclipse project! As the proposal states, it "competes with these [Buckminster, B3, PDE Build and Athena] projects". But seeing its current stability, its ease-of-use and all its possible synergies with the existing Maven tooling, I am pretty sure that it will win the race for being the preferred future build infrastructure for Eclipse/OSGi projects.
Kudos to Sonatype, who really put a lot of effort into this and who has torn down the barriers between the two worlds!