From pure Maven JEE5 we switched to "bndtools". bndtools is an eclipse plugin. bndtools is a way to rapidly work on bnd based projects. bnd is a rapid way to work on OSGI bundles. OSGI is a way to modulate Java code. A bundle is the OSGI module.
QueryDSL is an API for database communication from Java. QueryDSL uses the pattern of creating a customized API based on your data model. It does this by generating Java code. I refer to this generated code as "Q classes" because they all start with Q.
The Maven way of generating these Q classes is with a plugin. Compiling and other things like testing and packaging is referred to as building. Maven has a build lifecycle which includes the normal phases like compile and test. One of the standard Maven lifecycle phases is "generate-sources". This phase is meant to cover exactly the use case QueryDSL uses, that is to generate Java used to code against.
For the bndtools project my tech lead suggested eclipse's built in "builder" to call QueryDSL to generate the Q classes. I've never done that, took me a day or two of spare time.
Of course this means the build box can't generate the Q classes. So now I have to it it in a Gradle task and call that from the eclipse builder.
I miss Maven right now.
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