How to build your own Eclipse RCP application with maven Tycho

After you've written an eclipse plugin, you might want to turn it into a P2 project or a Java app that allows you to install to your eclipse, dangdangdang~~

This is where you can build your RCP application with the Maven-tycho plugin.

Here is the step by step tutorial:

Eclipse Tycho for building Eclipse Plug-ins, OSGi bundles and RCP applications-tutorial

And then this is a tutorial hit out of the project code: https://github.com/JoyeLuo/tycho-example

Here's a quick idea:

Eclipse Feature: When you install the Eclipse plugin, the name behind the check box shown below can contain multiple eclipse plugin projects

Eclipse P2 Update sites: is to generate a P2 address that contains one or more eclipse feature that you can install directly

Eclipse Produce: is an eclipse that integrates your custom plugin, which can be used directly after decompression.

How to build your own Eclipse RCP application with maven Tycho