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Buckminster is a set of frameworks and tools for automating build, assemble & deploy (BA&D) development processes in complex or distributed component-based development. Buckminster allows development organizations to define fine-grained "production lines" for the various stages in software production - unit testing, integration testing, field deployment, staged migration, etc. - and to automate the execution of corresponding processes.

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Why choose Buckminster over Maven?

I've been using Maven for several months and I am pretty comfortable with how it works conceptually and in practice. I have also looked at Buckminster quite extensively (but have not gotten to running samples yet) to try and figure out what it…
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P2 update of RCP based application fails

I trying to update an Eclipse-RCP-3.5 based application by an P2 update-site. The Application contains two features. Product is built by Eclipse Buckminster. Creation of the P2 update site is part of the product build. When start the update by menu:…
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Is there a SIMPLE example of How to use buckminster

I don't understand buckminster at all. Lets say I have a project, and it needs log4j and junit4. How do I get started, what do I need to do, to specify the dependencies and have the dependencies added to my classpath in eclipse. Is there any…
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Has anybody real world experience with buckminster?

I'm currently evaluating ivy, maven and buckminster to ease our build process. Conceptually buckminster seems the most advanced, but also to have quite a complexity. I can't find so many first hand experiences to buckminster on the web, therefore my…
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Headless build of eclipse features - PDE Tools or Buckminster?

I am trying to set up a headless build for a big eclipse feature, containing other features and plugins. As some needed plugins are generated using GMF and EMF, the build workflow must be something like this: SVN Check-out Invoke Generation Run…
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Buckminster: running JUnit Plugin tests headless

I have a simple Hudons/Buckminster setup where Hudson checks out four Java plugin projects from SVN, materializes(?) the org.eclipse.platform from the Helios download-site, runs a small ant-job in one of the projects for JFlex etc. (Buckminster…
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How does one build plugins containing Aspects with Buckminster and AspectJ?

I am using a headless version of Buckminster, v3.6. From what I had read, by updating to Eclipse 3.6, the PDE environment will build AspectJ projects, if you include certain configuration in the build.properties of the AspectJ project. The…
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XML schema for Eclipse target definition files

Where can I find the XML schema and/or documentation for Eclipse target definition files (*.target)?
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How to build RCP application based on Product Configuration and Target Platform Definition?

I'm about the setup an automatic (command-line) build for my Eclipse RCP Application. I have found out the following ways to do it: Buckminster Using Maven with the pde-maven-plugin Headless PDE Build The problem with all these options is that…
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Slow Buckminster plugin resolution

I am running a headless Buckminster build using ant that for some reason is taking 4+ hours to finish resolving all the plugins that need to be built. There are about 350 plugins that need to be built, all of which are already on the local…
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Buckminster RCP simple project materialization

After watching the webinar, skimming over the BuckyBook PDF, and following the Eclipse RCP build tutorial, I still don't know how to materialize a simple RCP plug-in project from CVS into an eclipse workspace. Does anyone have an example with a…
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Headless Buckminster RCP Product Generation Fails

I try to set up a headless RCP Build with Buckminster. My Project exists of about 10 subprojects. The Product Definition is based on features and its located in an plugin. I have two features. One feature have all the plugin-projects and the other…
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No suitable provider for component - Buckminster

I'm trying to build my eclipse plugin with Buckminster but there is this problem. When I try to resolve and materialize my cquery file, jenkins shows me the error message: ERROR [0001] : No suitable provider for component ScDt:eclipse.feature was…
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Hudson/Jenkins: Buckminster emma: How to exclude packages

I use Jenkins and Buckminster for rcp app for CI and this works like a charme. The only problem I have is that the buckminster emma task does the code coverage for ALL packages in the checked-out workspace. I would like to specify an exclude filter…
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Buckminster action "create.product.zip" is unable to run successfully

I am attempting to run the buckminster action "create.product.zip" in eclipse Photon (4.8.0) with this properties file: ## buckminster.properties ## #Where all the output should go buckminster.output.root=${user.home}/buckminster.output # Where the…
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