Posted by Wade Walker on Oct 18, 2010; 3:15pm
URL: https://forum.jogamp.org/New-tutorial-Vertex-buffer-objects-in-an-Eclipse-RCP-application-tp1722023p1725881.html

I know what you mean about generating the Eclipse .classpath (and presumably also the .project) with Ant. I've always wanted to try that, but haven't got the resources at work right now to revamp our whole build flow

The other option (if you don't have to support Netbeans) is to use PDE Build, the method that the Eclipse team uses to build Eclipse itself. It's a pain to set up, though, and it's annoying that Eclipse has two different build systems in it (the one for "plain" Eclipse projects, and the PDE Build that's used for plugin export and "headless" builds).

Plus, if you use PDE Build, all your projects have to be plugin projects. At work, I have some legacy projects that are plain old Eclipse projects, so I'd have to convert these to plugins to get PDE Build to work correctly.

My tutorials are all pure plugins on purpose, so that I can show how to use PDE Build later on with no problems