Re: [xwiki-dev] XWiki standalone package proposal

Sébastien Gaïde wrote: Mikhail and I have been working on a topic that may be of interest in this context. Our approach consists in creating an Eclipse "product" embedding XWiki as a plugin: we created a product that uses following plugins: - XWiki src tree with very few added files for making a plugin of it - org.eclipse.tomcat plugin - org.eclipse.help plugin - a plugin that is used to launch the web applications - org.eclipse.osgi plugin A hsqldb plugin could be added easily. We then export the plugins using the Eclipse product export tool, and then launch an XWiki server issuing "xwiki" on the command line. Eclipse "products" are described there: http://help.eclipse.org/help30/index.jsp?topic=/org.eclipse.platform.doc.is… "An Eclipse based product is a stand-alone program built with the Eclipse platform. A product may optionally be packaged and delivered as one or more features, which are simply groupings of plug-ins that are managed as a single entity by the Eclipse update mechanisms." Eclipse products can embed a JRE. See also this URL also about cross platform product export: http://download.eclipse.org/eclipse/downloads/drops/R-3.1-200506271435/ecli… With this approach: - the launcher is available on any platform supported by Eclipse -> you don't have to maintain one launching script for each targeted platform - the Eclipse update plugin can be used for proposing local installations to get updated with the latest XWiki release... - Eclipse help app can be embedded as a webapp, which is nice for browsing the documentation -> we could have XWiki doc available in it We can publish some code to the repository, in xwiki-sandbox/eclipse-product for instance? Stéphane -- Stéphane Laurière slauriere(a)mandriva.com http://club.mandriva.com