Time for action – building an update site

The update site created in Chapter 10, Adding an Update Site, is used to provide a standard hosting mechanism for Eclipse plug-ins and features. This can be built automatically with Tycho as well.

1. Move the com.packtpub.e4.update project underneath the com.packtpub.e4.parent project.

2. Add the line <module>com.packtpub.e4.update</module> to the parent pom.xml file.

3. Copy the pom.xml file from the clock plug-in to the update project.

4. Modify the packaging type to <packaging>eclipse-repository</packaging>.

5. Change the artifactId to com.packtpub.e4.update.

6. The resulting pom.xml file will look like:

   <?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
                        http://maven.apache.org/xsd/maven-4.0.0.xsd">
     <modelVersion>4.0.0</modelVersion>
     <parent>
   ...