Chapter 12 – Automated Builds with Tycho
Understanding automated builds and update sites
1. The GroupId, ArtifactId, and Version make a set of co-ordinates known as a GAV, which Maven uses to identify dependencies and plugins. The group is a means of associating multiple artifacts together, and the artifact is the individual component name. In OSGi and Eclipse builds, the group is typically the first few segments of the bundle name, and the artifact is the bundle name. The version follows the same syntax as the bundle's version, except that .qualifier is replaced with -SNAPSHOT.
2. The six types are pom (used for the parent), eclipse-plugin (for plug-ins), eclipse-test-plugin (for running plug-in tests and UI tests), eclipse-feature (for features), ...
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