I created a sample rcp application and wanted to see what the build process looks like. However, I get the following error message and I’m not sure why it expects a pom.xml.

The github project doesn’t seem to have a pom.xml within the plugin for the sample project either.

PS C:\dev\eclipse\workspace> mvn clean verify [INFO] Scanning for projects…​ [ERROR] [ERROR] Some problems were encountered while processing the POMs: [ERROR] Child module C:\dev\eclipse\workspace\de.tbonsack.example.wizard\pom.xml of C:\dev\eclipse\workspace\pom.xml does not exist @ @

[ERROR] The project com.vogella.tycho:releng:1.0.0-SNAPSHOT (C:\dev\eclipse\workspace\pom.xml) has 1 error [ERROR] Child module C:\dev\eclipse\workspace\de.tbonsack.example.wizard\pom.xml of C:\dev\eclipse\workspace\pom.xml does not exist

[ERROR] To see the full stack trace of the errors, re-run Maven with the -e switch. [ERROR] Re-run Maven using the -X switch to enable full debug logging.

[ERROR] For more information about the errors and possible solutions, please read the following articles: [ERROR] [Help 1] http://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/MAVEN/ProjectBuildingException

Hi Tobias,

did you try the actual example described in the exercise? You can start with an empty build, as described in https://learn.vogella.com/exercises/rich-client-platform/exercise-building-eclipse-rcp-applications-with-maven-3chf8#exercise-setting-up-a-maven-build-for-an-eclipse-application

Afterwards add a target platform as https://learn.vogella.com/exercises/rich-client-platform/exercise-building-eclipse-rcp-applications-with-maven-3chf8#exercise-using-a-target-platform-for-the-build

And afterwards only build one plug-in instead of multiple modules. For example, com.vogella.tasks.model will not have any plug-in dependencies and should be build without any issue.

In your example, it should like your pomless build is not configured correct. See https://learn.vogella.com/exercises/rich-client-platform/exercise-building-eclipse-rcp-applications-with-maven-3chf8#enable-the-tycho-build-extension

And sorry for the late reply…​.

Thanks for your answer.

I did the tutorial up until the maven build (note to self: I probably should have done it straight away)

Problem that I then noticed.

A build against the "https://download.eclipse.org/releases/latest" doesn’t seem to be possible, it can’t find org.eclipse.platform.sdk here. Should be 2023-12, so probably version 4.30 (as far as I understand)

At least that’s what I confirmed when I tried using "install new software" for the latest link. here it doesn’t show Eclipse Platform SDK.

Thanks, indeed 2023-12 (latest) changed a few things, it also moved to jakarta.inject in instead of javax.inject and removed this IU (installable unit). I plan to move the training to latest release in January, for now I added a warning about latest release to the target platform exercise: https://download.eclipse.org/releases/latest or https://download.eclipse.org/releases/2023-12 has changed some of its imports and available features. This text is currently still based on 2023-09 and will be updated shortly.

AFAICT the Tycho build exercise worked fine, so I’m closing this one, please re-open if you still have issues.