| The library plugin (jar containing plugin) - why won't it work? [message #272435] |
Wed, 22 September 2004 13:20  |
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Originally posted by: eddie._spam_free_grassybrook.com
My goal: have a "library" plugin providing classes out of one or more
jar files. (the classes inside are of the form com.xxx.yyy...)
Ok, I have read all the posts about this stuff, and it should be as
simple as:
Create a plain vanilla plugin.
Import jar file(s), which I placed in the root of that project.
Edit plugin.xml, which now has
<runtime>
<library name="MyLibraryStuff.jar">
<export name="*"/>
</library>
</runtime>
I got it that way by adding it to the Run-time libraries section, and
making sure "export the entire library" was checked.
So, let's call this plugin A
I have another plugin, plugin B, one that bring up some views.
I want the view to access certain classes from that library jar.
I told plugin B that it depends on plugin A by adding plugin A to the
"Required plug-ins" list. [a note, the icon next to it has a litle
orangle circle instead of an arrow pointing down, I suppose that's ok]
Now, when I'm editing some source java files in plugin B, I can't see
any classes from that jar file. import statements get the red x, I'm
never offered to import anything from the library jar file, etc.
Any ideas what's going on? Must the jar file be in a particular location
in plugin A? Anything that could be due to the jar file itself? (nothing
special afaik, it's a jar built from ant outside of Eclipse).
Thanks,
- Eddie
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| Re: The library plugin (jar containing plugin) - why won't it work? [message #272490 is a reply to message #272435] |
Wed, 22 September 2004 19:15  |
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Originally posted by: eddie._spam_free_grassybrook.com
After looking at how org.eclipse.tomcat does it, I see the same thing,
except that their project has the java nature attached to it.
I got my project to have that nature too, but now I always get a problem:
"The project cannot be built until its prerequisitie [PLUGIN A] is
built. Cleaning and ..."
I can't convince Eclipse that there is no "building". In fact, I even
later added a dummy java class, but still, no luck. The other projects
continue not to want to build.
BTW, I tried clean all, uncheck build auto, etc. No luck.
Any ideas, please?
Thanks,
Eddie
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| Re: The library plugin (jar containing plugin) - why won't it work? [message #272510 is a reply to message #272490] |
Wed, 22 September 2004 21:50 |
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Originally posted by: eddie._spam_free_grassybrook.com
Fixed it, by adding the Java nature to the project, but also making sure
that the Java builder was also running (since I had added the java
nature manually).
Why did this happen in the first place?
Is the plugin project for library jar files like this always supposed to
look like a Java project to eclipse? Did I do something wrong, because I
dont recall any instructions or tutorials explicitly asking to make sure
that the plugin project was a java project. In fact I swore you could
tell it not to do that.
Thanks,
- Eddie
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