Re: [dsdp-ercp-dev] Workbench references org.eclipse.swt.dnd.Transfer

[Gorkem Ercan <gercan@xxxxxxx>]

You are right. It looks like a problem with the manifest on the Series 80.
The reason eSWT is on bootclasspath is to make it available to other 
runtimes; main applications on Series 80.
--
Gorkem

Danail Nachev wrote:
> I did the following:
>
> 1) downloaded the 1.0.2 runtime for S80 device
> 2) installed it
> 3) retrieved back the org.eclipse.ercp.swt.jar bundle
> 4) examined its manifest and found out that the org.eclipse.swt.dnd is
> not part of its Export-Package header.
>
> As long as I remember the eSWT for S80 is installed separately, so is
> there a chance that the package is there (in the bootclasspath), but it
> is not added to the org.eclipse.ercp.swt bundle.
>
> There is absolutely no problem with this. This comes from the default
> behaviour of the Equinox, where it delegates everything to the
> bootclasspath first, so there is no chance that someone will have problems.
>
> However, I think it is good if we change the org.eclipse.ercp.swt bundle
> to export all available eSWT packages. It won't do any good but it won't
> do any bad too. It will just clarify which packages are available for
> eRCP applications.
>
> The best thing which we can do is deploy eSWT bundle as fragment to the
> system.bundle. This way, the packages will be exported properly, the
> classes will be available to the bundle and there won't be any need for
> boot delegation. This is the recommended way to export packages in the
> bootclasspath. However, this way the eSWT cannot be imported via
> Require-Bundle.
>
> I wonder what is the limitation which force the deployment of eSWT in
> the bootclasspath?
>
> Gorkem Ercan wrote:
>   
> > org.eclipse.swt.dnd is part of the expanded package so it should be
> > available when expanded is available. The purpose of dnd is mainly to
> > provide Clipboard support. So it should be available when expanded
> > package is available. I have also checked the eswt-expanded.jar for
> > Series 80 and the class files are available. Perhaps there is something
> > with your installation?
> > --
> > Gorkem
> >
> > Danail Nachev wrote:
> >     
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > I just noticed that
> > > org.eclipse.ui.application.IWorkbenchWindowConfigurer class references
> > > org.eclipse.swt.dnd.Transfer class.
> > >
> > > The problem is that this class is from the expanded eSWT set and it
> > > isn't available on S80 platform (I checked the packages exported by
> > > org.eclipse.swt bundle installed on S80 platform). The
> > > org.eclipse.ercp.ui.workbench requires the org.eclipse.swt bundle
> > > instead of importing the needed packages, so this doesn't cause problems
> > > with resolving. However, I wonder is this package (org.eclipse.swt.dnd)
> > > is an optional package or this is a potential problem? The third option
> > > is that I hadn't get it right, which is also possible:)
> > >
> > > I haven't much time and can't research it as much as I would like.
> > > Because I'm not sure whether this is really a problem I haven't posted
> > > bug.
> > >
> > >   
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