Buckminster

Installation

1. Install headless command line tool
2. Install Buckminster plug-in into Jenkins and configure Jenkins to use command line tool

Helpful links:

• http://www.eclipse.org/buckminster/downloads.html
• http://www.ralfebert.de/blog/eclipsercp/rcp_builds/

Headless command line tool

Install P2 director

• Download and extract latest P2 Director ( http://www.eclipse.org/buckminster/downloads.html )
  • http://www.eclipse.org/downloads/download.php?file=/tools/buckminster/products/director_latest.zip

Install Buckminster Headless

Linux

• Download Shell-script for installation in Linux.
• sh buckminster-install.sh 3.7 /opt/buckminster-3.7

Windows

• Download Batch script for installation in Windows.
• rename buckminster-install.txt buckminster-install.bat
• buckminster-install 3.7 X:\opt\buckminster-3.7

NOTE: The installation directory must be an absolute directory path (with drive letter in Windows), otherwise the installed buckminster product will not work properly.

Resource Maps

Resource maps are used to describe where and how resources, such as Eclipse plug-ins and features (i.e. OSGi bundles), are available to consumers.

In order to make available and propagate knowledge about the component structure of the Simantics platform to users and especially to buckminster, it is important to have Simantics resource maps openly available on the web.

Go to http://www.simantics.org/download/ for Simantics-related Buckminster resources. Latest version http://www.simantics.org/download/head 1.4 Release http://www.simantics.org/download/1.4 for 1.4

Resource map maintenance is performed under version control. Separate branches are kept for Simantics versions.

git clone ssh://gitosis@www.simantics.org/simantics-buckminster

Actions

• Component queries (CQUERY) are used for materializing components from version control based on resource maps (RMAP)
• site.p2: For generating a full-fledged P2 site from a specified Eclipse feature project
• site.p2.zip: For ZIP archiving the the P2 site generated by the site.p2 action.

B3

http://www.eclipse.org/modeling/emft/b3/ http://wiki.eclipse.org/Eclipse_b3/aggregator/manual http://www.eclipse.org/downloads/download.php?file=/modeling/emft/b3/documentation/B3Book2.pdf

More information on this tool is still needed, but it seems to be potentially useful in Simantics for easily composing aggregate P2 sites out of all our P2 sites.

Installation

director -r http://download.eclipse.org/modeling/emft/b3/headless-3.6 -d /var/hudson/bin/b3 -p b3 -i org.eclipse.b3.cli.product -i org.eclipse.b3.aggregator.engine.feature.feature.group