Bug 154032 - rar, sar and other jar archives
Summary: rar, sar and other jar archives
Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 182360
Alias: None
Product: JDT
Classification: Eclipse Project
Component: Core (show other bugs)
Version: 3.1.2   Edit
Hardware: PC Windows XP
: P3 enhancement (vote)
Target Milestone: 3.4 M7   Edit
Assignee: JDT-Core-Inbox CLA
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Reported: 2006-08-16 05:46 EDT by roar.sunde CLA
Modified: 2008-09-16 07:36 EDT (History)
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Description roar.sunde CLA 2006-08-16 05:46:47 EDT 
Since we now are getting alot of other types of archives witch only differs from jars in the extension. "library./sar/rar/spring/" and so on. Eclipse should support jars with extensions other that jar and zip.
Comment 1 Philipe Mulet CLA 2008-07-09 07:28:16 EDT 
This could be achieved through an extension point, where a pluggable archive reader could be contributed.

Such an extension point needs still to be defined though.
Comment 2 Benjamin Muskalla CLA 2008-07-09 07:35:49 EDT 
I wonder if JDT needs to care about different file formats. Instead of adding archives like jar,rar,etc to the build path we could support adding directories trough EFS (http://wiki.eclipse.org/EFS). With this we already have a ready to use "type-independent" system to support a) different file formats trough efs implementations or even funny things like remote libraries.
Comment 3 Jerome Lanneluc CLA 2008-08-13 10:18:37 EDT 
Comment 0 just asks that zip archives with other extensions be supported. This was done as part of the work for bug 182360

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 182360 ***
Comment 4 David Audel CLA 2008-09-16 07:36:07 EDT 
Verified for 3.5M2