title: How do I automate building of a eclipse plugin and using third party jars
body: <p>How do I automate the process of building my plugin and use my 'core' jar. </p>
  
  <p>1) The 'core' is a maven project that has third party dependencies. This I have automated and am able to archive it to our a local 'Archiva' repo.
  2) I have inherited a 'developer' plugin project which is/was manually built by a developer who is no longer with the company and very little documentation.
  This project has now been "configured" to become a maven project using eclipse and using tycho able package its as an 'eclipse-plugin'. The structure of project is in image.<a href="https://i.stack.imgur.com/Q1jRc.png" rel="nofollow noreferrer"><img src="https://i.stack.imgur.com/Q1jRc.png" alt="enter image description here"></a>  </p>
  
  <pre><code>&lt;dependency&gt;
  &lt;groupId&gt;org.eclipse.tycho&lt;/groupId&gt;
  &lt;artifactId&gt;tycho-maven-plugin&lt;/artifactId&gt;
  &lt;version&gt;${tycho-version}&lt;/version&gt;
  &lt;type&gt;maven-plugin&lt;/type&gt;
  &lt;!-- extensions&gt;true&lt;/extensions --&gt;
  &lt;/dependency&gt;
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>I know eclipse plugins only understands the bundles and can only be fetched from p2 repo but I have 'archiva' which is a maven repo? 
  How do I make my 'core.jar' into a bundle and be 'p2'  recognizable?
  I have read alot but just don't understand how to do it.</p>
  
  <p>Hope someone can help me please?
  regards,
  jemrug</p>