Re: [eclipse-dev] Access classes of Platform's parent ClassLoader

[John Arthorne <John_Arthorne@xxxxxxxxxx>]

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eclipse-dev-admin@xxxxxxxxxxx wrote on 01/19/2004
09:03:23 AM:

> Hi!
> 
> I want to be able to load a class from a JAR file, without having
to
> reference it from the plugin.xml.
> More in detail: 
> - in my environment, the Eclipse plattform will be started from another
Java
> application, simply calling org.eclipse.core.launcher.Main
> - the ClassLoader of this other Java application already knows a class,
say
> "a.b.MyClass"
> 
> Is it possible to access that class from inside a plugin in Eclipse,
without
> having to reference the JAR as run-time with the plugin.xml?
> I mean, is it possible to trickle the Platform or Plugin- ClassLoader
in
> order to pass the calls to the caller's ClassLoader?
> 
> -> I am using Eclipse 2.1!
> 
> Thanks,
> Bye.
> 
> Andrea Vicentini
> 
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