Reference a eclipse plugin from a regular project

Question

this is a more conceptual question:

I want to create an application which uses the WALA framework, which itself is packaged as a eclipse plugin, built with maven-tycho. When I try to add this as an dependency no transitive dependency gets resolved, because they are covered by the tycho build.

This is the pom of the WALA project I need at least https://github.com/wala/WALA/blob/master/com.ibm.wala.core/pom.xml

Should my application be a OSGI Bundle itself or can I create a regular jar with it without having much trouble? Which approach is more practical?

Answer 1

If I have seen it correctly, wala.core has only two dependencies wala.util and wala.shrike (util has none, shrike depends on util). So you might as well simply include all three dependencies in your project.

On the long haul, however, you might should indeed consider creating an osgi application instead.