I have been searching for this now for several days and have found
nothing, so I thought I would ask here.  Is there a maven2 plugin that
supports building of Eclipse plugins, features, and update sites?  Right
now we have several Eclipse plugins that are built into ZIP files that
can be unzipped into an Eclipse plugins directory.  However, there are
several problems with this:

1. There's no support for updating the plugin.xml with the version
information of the plugin's jar.
2. There's no support for putting the maven pom.xml dependencies (direct
or transitive) into the plugin.xml.
3. There's no support for building an Eclipse feature that includes
those plugins.
4. There's no support for building an Eclipse update site from the
feature or for that matter deploying to an update site.

Right now we have some hackery to at least get to the ZIP file, but
unless there is something already existing, I see a bunch of long nights
ahead while I write my own stuff.  The requirement is that we can have
an update site automatically built/updated by our build system.
 
So, is there anything that I can use here?  Even if there is an open
source project that goes only part of the way, it would possibly give me
a head start.

Thanks in advance for any help that anyone can give me.

Jim Babka
Senior Software Engineer
Main: (512) 334 3200
Direct: (512) 334 3237
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