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Re: [stellation-res] Easier setup in Eclipse: here it is.

 --- Jim Wright - IBM Research <jwright@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: 
> I've tested your nifty plugins locally, and they work with one small
> change.
> The plugin.xml file for your org.jdom plugin must include the
> following text:
> 
>    <requires>
>            <import plugin="org.apache.xerces"/>
>    </requires>
> 
> Otherwise, there's a ClassDefNotFound exception when JDOM is used,
> because it can't find Xerces.
> With that change - it works great!  (I also had to change all of the 
> Stellation plugin.xml files, of course).

Change applied and the fixed plugin has been put on my update site.

> Presumably, when I load the same project into my Win2K system, I will
> get a 
> classpath error and have to ask Eclipse to recompute
> the build path -- for each plugin using SWT.  Since this changes 
> the  plugin .classpath file, it will be flagged as a change by the
> SCM 
> system, and likely cause endless rippling as developers work on
> different platforms.  Not good.

Hmmm. I understand now.

> In R1.0, a copy of the swt win32 jar was kept in a fixed location for
> use 
> in buildtime classpaths.  I don't know what the R2 solution is.
> Any ideas?

No. I just posted a message on the Eclipse newsgroup about this and I
will see what the outcome is. The title of the message is "SWT as
plugin dependency in multi-OS environment: .classpath problem!"

Ringo

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