Re: [stp-dev]: [Bug 162732] refactor to dynamically collect cxf libs fro

[rcernich@xxxxxxxxxx]

Hey Howard,

I'm not quite sure what this defect covers, but I thought I'd mention this
piece of functionality that was recently added to the connectivity
framework.  Driver instances, defined by the user can now be associated
with Java projects.  This adds the classpath defined in the driver instance
to the Java project through the classpath container extension.

If you have you're connection profile setup to reference a driver instance.
The driver JAR specified by the user would then be applied to the Java
project.  (However, this is unnecessary if you are bundling the JAR with
your plugin.)

(Some background...  This was added per community request.  Developers
thought it would be good if they could simply apply the classpath they used
for their driver definition to a Java project.  The DTP use case would be
for developing a Java DB based application; the driver is used to create
the DB connection, which is used by the SQL tools (editor, etc.), which are
used to generate queries, which are used in the Java application.)

Once again, if I've missed the point of the defect, please treat this
simply as notification of a new feature in the connectivity framework that
you might find useful.

Best regards,
Rob