How are dependencies to other eclipse plug-ins handled?
Since each bundle-manifest already provides dependency information to other bundles, these dependencies do not have to be respecified in each project’s POM. During the build, the “Require-Bundle” attribute in each bundle manifest is processed and a maven dependency is added dynamically for every entry. During this process, each of these bundle dependencies is located inside the specified target eclipse distribution (specified in the root pom) and then installed into the local m2 repository for use by maven’s dependency resolver. So essentially this mimics the PDE builder in that we build against a target platform rather then against individual dependencies.
