Tycho Dependency Tools Plugin – Plugin Documentation

Plugin Documentation

This report describes goals, parameters details, requirements and sample usage of this plugin.

Goals

Goals available for this plugin:

Goal	Description
tycho-dependency-tools:generate-target	This mojo generates a target platform from all the dependencies of a maven build for example to be used inside of PDE
tycho-dependency-tools:list-dependencies	Builds a .target file describing the dependencies for current project. It differs from `maven-dependency-plugin:list` in the fact that it does return location to bundles, and not to nested jars (in case bundle contain some).

System Requirements

The following specifies the minimum requirements to run this Maven plugin:

Maven	3.9.6
JDK	17

System Requirements History

The following specifies the minimum requirements to run this Maven plugin for historical versions:

Plugin Version	Maven	JDK
from 3.0.0 to 4.0.7	-	17
from 2.0.0 to 2.7.5	-	11
from 1.5.0 to 1.7.0	-	8

Usage

You should specify the version in your project's plugin configuration:

<project>
  ...
  <build>
    <!-- To define the plugin version in your parent POM -->
    <pluginManagement>
      <plugins>
        <plugin>
          <groupId>org.eclipse.tycho.extras</groupId>
          <artifactId>tycho-dependency-tools-plugin</artifactId>
          <version>5.0.0-SNAPSHOT</version>
        </plugin>
        ...
      </plugins>
    </pluginManagement>
    <!-- To use the plugin goals in your POM or parent POM -->
    <plugins>
      <plugin>
        <groupId>org.eclipse.tycho.extras</groupId>
        <artifactId>tycho-dependency-tools-plugin</artifactId>
      </plugin>
      ...
    </plugins>
  </build>
  ...
</project>

For more information, see "Guide to Configuring Plug-ins"