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Bundle-Classpath "external" Directive [message #1220300]

Tue, 10 December 2013 23:12

George Curran

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Registered: December 2013

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I have been stuggling to use packages from an external JAR file in my Eclipse Equinox plugin project using the "external" directive in the "Bundle-Classpath" entry. If I copy the JAR into the project root (or pretty much anywhere under the project), add the JAR to the project classpath and to the "Bundle-Classpath", the packages are accessible. However, if I update the project classpath and "Bundle-Classpath" to point to the JAR somewhere externally and click "Update the classpath settings" on the "Plug-in Development" UI, the "Referenced Libraries" entry in the project explorer disappears and all the entries referencing packages in the JAR are flagged as errors in the MANIFEST.MF view.

I have been reading posts in this forum and other places indicating this should work in Equinox but not matter what I have tried it always fails. What am I missing?

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Re: Bundle-Classpath "external" Directive [message #1220394 is a reply to message #1220300]

Wed, 11 December 2013 13:26

Thomas Watson

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Registered: July 2009

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While the external: class path should work at runtime in equinox I think your issue is that PDE in Eclipse does not understand or support external classpath entries in the tools.

Tom.

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Re: Bundle-Classpath "external" Directive [message #1223504 is a reply to message #1220394]

Mon, 23 December 2013 15:38

Peter Nehrer

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Registered: July 2009

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FWIW -- you can include extra jars in your plug-in dependencies
(build-time) via extra.<library> property in build.properties:
http://help.eclipse.org/kepler/index.jsp?topic=%2Forg.eclipse.pde.doc.user%2Freference%2Fpde_feature_generating_build.htm

On 12/11/13 8:26 AM, Thomas Watson wrote:
> While the external: class path should work at runtime in equinox I think
> your issue is that PDE in Eclipse does not understand or support
> external classpath entries in the tools.
>
> Tom.

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