Using Maven default directory structure for new plug-ins?

[vogella]

Not sure if that was discussed in the past but maybe PDE should allow to define plug-ins using the default directory structure Maven and Gradle are using, with src/main/java and src/test/java.

Given that we trying to move more and more to proven standards which are wildly used, this might be helpful to make plug-in development easier to newcomers.

[HannesWell]

Not sure if that was discussed in the past but maybe PDE should allow to define plug-ins using the default directory structure Maven and Gradle are using, with src/main/java and src/test/java.

Using src/main/java and src/test/java as src folders should already be possible. One just has to specify the corresponding paths of the src-entries in the .classpath and adjust the paths of the src-entries in the build.property file (and likely only bin.include the main sources).

The only thing that is not working is to have dependencies that are only visible for tests.

[vogella]

Thanks @HannesWell this discussion was also intended to discuss if the PDE project wizard should use this new structure for newly created plug-ins.

[merks]

I expect that changing the default will kind of invalidate or confuse all existing tutorials and documentations around this long-established technology and long-used pattern. Providing an additional explicit choice wouldn't harm, but there are likely 100 other things that would benefit the users more than this.