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Fedora JBoss Spin

This aim of this page is to gather all information relevant to the creation of the JBoss spin for Fedora. I (Gerard Ryan) am working on this as a project under Google Summer of Code 2012, with (Marek Goldmann) as mentor. More details on the GSOC proposal can be found here.


JBoss Tools

The first chunk of the work will be to start packaging JBoss Tools for Eclipse. This may require additional parts of Eclipse WTP to be packaged.

There may be some difficulty with using tycho in Fedora, see patches for eclipse-cdt.

At the moment, I'm using the following page as a reference for learning how to build: https://community.jboss.org/wiki/HowToBuildJBossToolsWithMaven3 Also, focusing on the 3.3.0.Beta3 branch, so this also applies: https://community.jboss.org/wiki/HowToBuildJBossToolsWithMaven3-WorkingWithBranches

Currently, I'm running all mvn-rpmbuild commands from the build/ directory. I'm not sure if this is the best way going forward, it may not be necessary but the pom.xml there includes profiles for all the other components, and bootstrap profiles for many of them too.


Proposed Structure of eclipse-jbosstools


  • eclipse-jbosstools
    • eclipse-jbosstools-parent
    • eclipse-jbosstools-tests
    • eclipse-jbosstools-common
      • needs jbosstools-tests
    • eclipse-jbosstools-usage
    • eclipse-jbosstools-archives
      • needs jbosstools-usage
    • eclipse-jbosstools-jmx
      • needs jbosstools-common, jbosstools-tests, jbosstools-usage
    • eclipse-jbosstools-as
      • needs jbosstools-common, jbosstools-tests, jbosstools-archives, jbosstools-jmx


Unpackaged dependencies

Feel free to package any of these, just let me know you're doing it (grdryn on #fedora-java)! :)

  • truezip
    • bundled in eclipse-jbosstools-archives


  • jboss-common-logging-log4j
    • bundled in eclipse-jbosstools-archives
    • afaict it's bundled as a dep for jbossxb (below), which is old and relies onjboss-logging-spi, which is not going to be packaged


  • jbossxb
    • bundled in eclipse-jbosstools-archives


  • ant-optional
    • currently commented out of jbosstools-parent to make it work
    • may not be necessary or desired


  • eclipse-swtbot
    • needed by eclipse-jbosstools-tests



  • org.eclipse.jst.web_ui.feature from eclipse-wtp-sourceediting
    • going to build the jst.web core/UI features in a separate package to avoid cyclical dependencies --grdryn
    • needed by eclipse-jbosstools-jst


  • eclipse-m2e-core
    • needed by eclipse-jbosstools-openshift (not currently being built)


  • org.eclipse.jsf
    • needed by eclipse-jbosstools-ws (not currently being built)



  • eclipse-wtp-jsf
    • needed by eclipse-jbosstools-cdi (not currently being built)

Current progress

Table below shows what is officially submitted to Fedora (after creating review request).

# Package Version Review request Packager Status Comments
1 uddi4j 2.0.5 RHBZ #825890 galileo(grdryn) In Rawhide
2 wsil4j 1.0 RHBZ #826014 galileo(grdryn) In Rawhide
3 geronimo-activation 1.1 RHBZ #826777 galileo(grdryn) Skipped Activation framwework is included in JDK 6+ Most probably you don't need this package, at all.
4 eclipse-wtp-webservices 3.4.0 RHBZ #827917 galileo(grdryn) In Rawhide Depends on RHBZ #826014, RHBZ #826327, RHBZ #826776
5 eclipse-wtp-jeetools 3.4.0 RHBZ #833154 galileo(grdryn) In Rawhide Depends on RHBZ #834944 and RHBZ #834956
6 eclipse-wtp-jpa 3.4.0 RHBZ #833641 galileo(grdryn) Waiting for review Depends on RHBZ #833154
7 eclipse-wtp-jst-web 3.4.0 RHBZ #835338 galileo(grdryn) Waiting for review Depends on RHBZ #833154
8 jboss-common-logging-spi 2.1.2 RHBZ #835716 galileo(grdryn) Skipped This package was removed from review request queue as it shouldn't be packaged and jboss-logging RPM should be used instead
9 jboss-classpool-scoped 1.0.1 RHBZ #836400 galileo(grdryn) Waiting for review
10 jboss-reflect 2.2.1 RHBZ #836404 galileo(grdryn) Waiting for review Depends on RHBZ #836400
11 jbossxb 2.0.3 RHBZ #836403 galileo(grdryn) Waiting for review Depends on RHBZ #836400, RHBZ #836404
12 schlichtherle-oss-parent 2.0.3 RHBZ #836849 galileo(grdryn) Waiting for review
13 truezip 2.0.3 RHBZ #836850 galileo(grdryn) Waiting for review Depends on RHBZ #836849 and RHBZ #836698


Status legend

Status Meaning
Issue Package encountered a serious issue while packaging (license, etc) - see Comments field for more info.
Skipped Package submitted by accident or not required anymore.
Waiting for review Package is submitted for review and ready to be reviewed. Feel free to pick this package and do the review.
In review Package is submitted for review and being reviewed by someone.
After review, waiting for SCM Package passed review and packages is waiting for creating git repo in Fedora for this package.
In Rawhide Package is available in Rawhide. Yay! This means also that the package was submitted to Fedora 17 as an update.

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