Reuse sisu-osgi to run Eclipse processes?

[lppedd]

I have the necessity to launch an Eclipse process via a custom Maven plugin, to emulate a command line like:

my/custom/path/eclipse.exe -application org.eclipse.ant.core.antRunner -nosplash -buildfile build.xml

I'd like to avoid interacting with the bare JDK-provided process classes if possible, and was wondering, is using the Tycho sisu-osgi projects a good way to do it (like what the eclipse-run mojo does)?

[laeubi]

Yes EclipseRunMojo emulates something like this (and has a special constructor for extenders ... but I plan to improve that to better make it a component), but you can't "just" pass a eclipse install there. So if you really want to "execute eclipse" then ProcessBuilder is most likley what you want, because a seperate process is much more separated (e.g. has own process memory and alike)