How to force a target platform update in eclipse when adding an osgi bundle

Question

We have an osgi project in eclipse. Whenever I add a bundle to a directory used in the target definition (using gradle to retrieve the jar from a maven repository), I have to manually update the target definition/platform. Is there a possibility to force eclipse to update/refresh the target platform during a build?

Answer 1

I don't think that it is possible to have the Eclipse incremental build automatically react on changes to the target definition file. This may be possible though, and could be requested as enhancement from the Eclipse PDE project.

Refreshing the target definition in every incremental build would not be a good idea, given that the resolution takes several seconds.