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Regarding organizing classes and projects for a RCP Application [message #448979]

Mon, 08 May 2006 09:41

Eclipse User

Greetings.

This question might have an obvious answer but so far I am a little
confused. I have several plugins for an RCP Application. Now, there is
a lot of code that is common to all these plugins, and which I don't
want to be part of the RCP application as I might need to use it in
later projects that do not use Eclipse (Basically, singleton classes
with no GUI interface that provide diverse functionality and their
helper classes).

I want to create a separate simple java project to store all these
classes. However, I get stuck when trying to import them back into the
RCP project. What is the right way to do so? Everytime I try to run
the RCP app, the classes on the simple java project are not available,
even when I put them as requirements for compilation on the properties /
projects in classpath on the plugin project.

I guess the right way would be that a "core" plugin imports all of these
separate classes, right? but how do I set up that?

What am I doing wrong?

Re: Regarding organizing classes and projects for a RCP Application [message #448981 is a reply to message #448979]

Mon, 08 May 2006 09:57

Eclipse User

It's because plugins only recognize plugins. For it to participate in
RCP, it must be in a plugin somewhere.

What I would do:

1) create your java project, and place all of your utility classes in it.

2) Use the project popup menu>PDE Tools to turn your java project into a
plugin project. It adds the build.properties and MANIFEST.MF.

After step 2, any java project can use your utilities jar as a plain old
jar. Any plugin will see the MANIFEST.MF, and treat your utilities jar
as a plugin.

Later,
PW

Re: Regarding organizing classes and projects for a RCP Application [message #449071 is a reply to message #448981]

Wed, 10 May 2006 05:54

Eclipse User

You don't even need to do that -- any plugin project is automatically a Java project, and can be used as such. So just create it as a plugin project to start with :-)

Alex.

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