Bug 6488

Summary:	Classpath Variables (allow plugins to reserve some)
Product:	[Eclipse Project] JDT	Reporter:	Richard Kulp <richkulp>
Component:	Core	Assignee:	Philipe Mulet <philippe_mulet>
Status:	RESOLVED WORKSFORME	QA Contact:
Severity:	normal
Priority:	P3
Version:	2.0
Target Milestone:	2.1 RC1
Hardware:	All
OS:	All
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Description Richard Kulp

2001-11-30 16:30:06 EST

Plugins should be able to mark classpath variables that they create as reserved 
so that the user can't accidently change (just like JRELIB, ... are reserved). 
They should have the option of marking them reserved.
Thanks,
Rich Kulp

Comment 1 Philipe Mulet

2001-11-30 18:45:36 EST

Interesting idea. For info, JDT/Core owns no variable in particular. JDT/UI 
defines the trio JRE_* and show them as reserved.

I believe though that there should be a mechanism for plugins to declare 
classpath variables which then are recognized as such, and the respective 
plugin inference would be the only way to update them.

JDT/Core only defines an infrastructure for defining and using them, it does 
not come with any preferred ones.

Comment 2 Philipe Mulet

2002-03-14 12:47:22 EST

Will consider post 2.0

Comment 3 Philipe Mulet

2003-02-14 09:18:26 EST

Closing, registered variables are detectable by asking:

JavaCore.getClasspathVariableInitializer(varName) != null

Comment 4 Philipe Mulet

2003-02-14 09:19:00 EST

Closing