Tycho Articles

Tycho is an add-on to maven that allows to build Eclipse plug-ins and RCP applications. The tutorials listed below explain step by step how to set up a maven based build for a sample RCP application.

1. Building plug-ins
2. Global maven settings
3. Creating a global build project
4. Building features
5. Building p2 update sites
6. Building products
7. Plug-in unit tests
8. Using a target platform
9. Updating version numbers
10. Signing plugins and executables
11. Install root level features
12. Build source features 
13. Generating API documentation

Additional topics:

• Host your own eclipse signing server
• Add PMD support to Eclipse, Maven, and Jenkins
• Add Code Coverage Reports to Eclipse, Maven, and Jenkins
• Add SpotBugs support to Eclipse, Maven, and Jenkins