Bug 88467

Summary:	Com Serial/Parallel SUN java library pb
Product:	[Eclipse Project] Platform	Reporter:	Xavier Méhaut <xavier.mehaut>
Component:	Runtime	Assignee:	platform-runtime-inbox <platform-runtime-inbox>
Status:	RESOLVED DUPLICATE	QA Contact:
Severity:	blocker
Priority:	P3
Version:	3.1
Target Milestone:	---
Hardware:	PC
OS:	Windows XP
Whiteboard:

Description Xavier Méhaut

2005-03-18 10:23:53 EST

Hello,
I've tried to use the SUN Come serial/parallel java library in my plugins. There
is no pb with a stand alone java application, but when I integrate the same code
into an eclipse plugin, it is impossible to make it running... 
Actually, this library must be put into $(JRE)/lib/ext and not into my
$(MyPlugin)/lib  directory as usual, because this library is associated with a
property file which must be put into $(JRE)/lib. It seems that th JVM convention
is to look at into this directory if there is a property file associated to the
library found into .../lib/ext.
So I can't put this property files into  my plugin directory...
Maybe be Eclipse could enable the same scheme, ie if in the lib directory
included into the plugin we find a property file associated to a libray, it
takes it into account...
regards
Xavier Méhaut

Comment 1 Rafael Chaves

2005-03-18 10:40:03 EST

Doesn't it work when the library is added to the lib/ext directory? What
happens? Please provide any error messages/log entries. What build of Eclipse
are you using?

See also bug 87775.

Comment 2 Rafael Chaves

2005-03-18 10:57:02 EST

Actually, the default is not to have the extension classloader available to
plug-ins. See bug 30919 comment 20 on how to configure Eclipse to use the
extension classloader as the parent classloader for plug-ins.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 30919 ***