RE: [ve-dev] Need to get plug-in path

["Janak Mulani" <janak.mulani@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hi,

Sorry for being bit hasty in posting!

I found a soultion. 

I can use IPath.makeAbsolute() before passing to newLibraryEntry().

Please confirm if this is ok or there is another way.

Thanks and regards,

Janak

> -----Original Message-----
> From: ve-dev-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:ve-dev-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxx]On
> Behalf Of Janak Mulani
> Sent: Monday, October 03, 2005 6:00 PM
> To: ve-Dev@Eclipse. Org
> Subject: [ve-dev] Need to get plug-in path
> 
> 
> Hi,
> 
> I need to include a jar file from our plugin in the classpath Container.
> 
> For this I need to know the absolute path of our plugin on the user's
> machine. How can I do it?
> 
> 
> In Eclipse 3.0.x the following worked:
> 
> Bundle bundle = Platform.getBundle("plugin name");
> bundlePaths = bundle.getLocation().split("@");
> path = new Path(bundlePaths[1] + "my.jar");
> JavaCore.newLibraryEntry(path,null,null)
> 
> In Eclipse 3.1:
> The above does not work because getLocation90 returns relative 
> path and not
> absolute path. The reason is that
> ConfigurationActivator.getBudlesToInstall() is now storing relative paths
> instead of absolute path.
> 
> newLibraryEntry(path, null, null) expects abs path, so its 
> assertion fails.
>