Eclipse updatesite

Tag

updatesite

Handle latest

yes

Handle publish

no

[since 2.3]

This resolver is one of the resolvers which support OSGi™ dependencies. It resolves modules (OSGi bundles) which are hosted in an Eclipse™ update site.

This resolver supports old style Eclipse updatesite, based on a single file, site.xml. It also supports Eclipse P2 repositories.

Attributes

This resolver shares the common attributes of composite resolvers.

Attribute Description Required

url

the URL of the Eclipse updatesite

Yes

requirementStrategy

defines how strict should be the OSGi resolution. Can be one of first or noambiguity

No, default to noambiguity

metadataTtl

the time in milliseconds the updatesite metadata are considered up to date

No, default to 3600000 (1 hour)

forceMetadataUpdate

force the update of the updatesite metadata without checking their freshness

No, default to false

The requirement strategy is defining how the resolver should behave when facing several choices. In the OSGi dependency model, an Import-Package requirement can be satisfied by several different bundles. So when resolving such requirement, Ivy will first look into the already resolved bundles if one provides that package. If it fails to find one, then two behaviours can occur:

  • if the requirement strategy is first, among the bundles satisfying the requirement, it will choose the first one. A warning will be logged about the choice Ivy has to arbitrarily do.

  • if the requirement strategy is noambiguity, Ivy will make the resolution fail.

Examples

<updatesite name="ivyde-updatesite" url="http://www.apache.org/dist/ant/ivyde/updatesite"/>

A simple repository configured to load the Apache IvyDE Eclipse update site.