[Building Sakai] Eclipse metadata files (reviving an old proposal)

[Anthony Whyte]

Back in Sept 2008 Aaron regenerated the Eclipse metadata files in  
trunk (.classpath, etc.) by running from the base folder:

mvn eclipse:clean
mvn eclipse:eclipse

The said files in trunk are wildly out-of-date again so I have  
regenerated them (see example below).  I have done the same for the  
2.6.x and 2.6.0 branches since each of these binds to a different  
kernel artifact.  The metadata files now reflect the latest Kernel  
(K1) bindings as well other dependencies that have been changed  
(e.g., trunk commonons-io upgrade from 1.2 to 1.4).

Aaron also recommended removing these metadata files completely from  
trunk since tools exist for generating them locally.  I'd like  
resurrect this proposal and see if the community thinks that removing  
these files is a good idea.  See the sakai-dev thread for more  
details of that earlier discussion.

http://www.nabble.com/Remove-Replace-all-eclipse-files-for-2.6- 
release--to19690993.html#a19690993

If the vote is to stay with the status quo, I should note that I have  
added this regeneration task to my release management duties;  
whenever I generate a K1 release I'll refresh the Eclipse metadata  
files in trunk, the current maintenance branch (e.g., 2.6.x) and any  
other branches dependent on kernel bindings.

Trunk developers should perform an svn update to pick up these changes.

Cheers,

Anth


 From this (trunk/.../access-impl example):

<classpath>
   <classpathentry kind="src" path="src/bundle" including="**/ 
*.properties" excluding="**/*.java"/>
   <classpathentry kind="src" path="src/java"/>
   <classpathentry kind="output" path="target/classes"/>
   <classpathentry kind="con"  
path="org.eclipse.jdt.launching.JRE_CONTAINER"/>
   <classpathentry kind="var" path="M2_REPO/commons-fileupload/ 
commons-fileupload/1.1.1/commons-fileupload-1.1.1.jar"/>
   <classpathentry kind="var" path="M2_REPO/commons-io/commons-io/1.2/ 
commons-io-1.2.jar"/>
   <classpathentry kind="var" path="M2_REPO/commons-logging/commons- 
logging/1.0.4/commons-logging-1.0.4.jar"/>
   <classpathentry kind="var" path="M2_REPO/junit/junit/3.8.1/ 
junit-3.8.1.jar"/>
   <classpathentry kind="var" path="M2_REPO/logkit/logkit/1.2/ 
logkit-1.2.jar"/>
   <classpathentry kind="var" path="M2_REPO/oro/oro/2.0.8/ 
oro-2.0.8.jar"/>
   <classpathentry kind="var" path="M2_REPO/org/sakaiproject/kernel/ 
sakai-component-manager/1.0RC2-SNAPSHOT/sakai-component- 
manager-1.0RC2-SNAPSHOT.jar"/>
   <classpathentry kind="var" path="M2_REPO/org/sakaiproject/kernel/ 
sakai-kernel-api/1.0RC2-SNAPSHOT/sakai-kernel-api-1.0RC2-SNAPSHOT.jar"/>
   <classpathentry kind="var" path="M2_REPO/org/sakaiproject/kernel/ 
sakai-kernel-util/1.0RC2-SNAPSHOT/sakai-kernel-util-1.0RC2- 
SNAPSHOT.jar"/>
   <classpathentry kind="src" path="/sakai-velocity-tool"/>
   <classpathentry kind="src" path="/sakai-velocity-tool-api"/>
   <classpathentry kind="var" path="M2_REPO/javax/servlet/servlet-api/ 
2.4/servlet-api-2.4.jar"/>
   <classpathentry kind="var" path="M2_REPO/velocity/velocity/1.3.1/ 
velocity-1.3.1.jar"/>
</classpath>


to this:

<classpath>
   <classpathentry kind="src" path="src/bundle" including="**/ 
*.properties" excluding="**/*.java"/>
   <classpathentry kind="src" path="src/java"/>
   <classpathentry kind="output" path="target/classes"/>
   <classpathentry kind="con"  
path="org.eclipse.jdt.launching.JRE_CONTAINER"/>
   <classpathentry kind="var" path="M2_REPO/commons-fileupload/ 
commons-fileupload/1.1.1/commons-fileupload-1.1.1.jar"/>
   <classpathentry kind="var" path="M2_REPO/commons-io/commons-io/1.4/ 
commons-io-1.4.jar"/>
   <classpathentry kind="var" path="M2_REPO/commons-logging/commons- 
logging/1.0.4/commons-logging-1.0.4.jar"/>
   <classpathentry kind="var" path="M2_REPO/junit/junit/3.8.1/ 
junit-3.8.1.jar"/>
   <classpathentry kind="var" path="M2_REPO/logkit/logkit/1.2/ 
logkit-1.2.jar"/>
   <classpathentry kind="var" path="M2_REPO/oro/oro/2.0.8/ 
oro-2.0.8.jar"/>
   <classpathentry kind="var" path="M2_REPO/org/sakaiproject/kernel/ 
sakai-component-manager/1.1-SNAPSHOT/sakai-component-manager-1.1- 
SNAPSHOT.jar"/>
   <classpathentry kind="var" path="M2_REPO/org/sakaiproject/kernel/ 
sakai-kernel-api/1.1-SNAPSHOT/sakai-kernel-api-1.1-SNAPSHOT.jar"/>
   <classpathentry kind="var" path="M2_REPO/org/sakaiproject/kernel/ 
sakai-kernel-util/1.1-SNAPSHOT/sakai-kernel-util-1.1-SNAPSHOT.jar"/>
   <classpathentry kind="src" path="/sakai-velocity-tool"/>
   <classpathentry kind="src" path="/sakai-velocity-tool-api"/>
   <classpathentry kind="var" path="M2_REPO/javax/servlet/servlet-api/ 
2.4/servlet-api-2.4.jar"/>
   <classpathentry kind="var" path="M2_REPO/velocity/velocity/1.3.1/ 
velocity-1.3.1.jar"/>
</classpath>
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