Time for action – building with Tycho

Now that Maven is installed, it's time to build a plug-in with Tycho. Tycho is a set of plug-ins for Maven 3 that emulates the PDE build system used by Eclipse. The Eclipse platform has moved to building with Tycho and Maven 3.

  1. Change into the com.packtpub.e4.clock.ui project created in Chapter 2, Creating Views with SWT.

    Tip

    The project can also be downloaded from the site's GitHub repository at https://github.com/alblue/com.packtpub.e4/

  2. Create a file called pom.xml at the root of the project, with the following empty contents:
    <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> <project xmlns="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xsi:schemaLocation="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0 ...

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