Description Nathan Vick 2005-08-31 20:19:25 EDT

Eclipse does not let you add an EJB 3.0 persistence archive (*.par) to the Java
Build Path. Persistence archives are supposed to work in a plain old J2SE
environment. I understand that EJB 3.0 is not yet final, but I would like a way
to force an archive onto the build path, even if I have to hack it into the
.classpath file.

The "Add JARs..." button brings up a window that ignores it. The "Add External
JARs..." button also brings up a window that igores it, but at least you can
type the in filename. However, even if you type in the filename, if it ends with
.par, you get an error: Illegal type of archive for required library. Even if I
hack the entry into the .classpath file, I get the same error: Illegal type of
archive for required library.

Please see:

http://blog.hibernate.org/cgi-bin/blosxom.cgi/2005/08/04#par-archive
http://java.sun.com/products/ejb/docs.html