Description JP Moresmau 2002-10-16 11:10:46 EDT

Some packages need to be put in JRE_HOME/lib/ext, especially in JDK 1.3 (JAAS 
and JCE classes, for examples). Any other location will not work. Loading them 
in a new ClassLoader from that location will not work: they need to be accessed 
from the orignal class loader. However, org.eclipse.platform.launcher.Main 
creates a new ClassLoader to start loading Eclipse and its plugins with no 
parent, which means the extension classes cannot be reached from our plugin 
code, which means we can't use things like JAAS or JCE!
As a short term solution we have modified Main.java to use the classloader that 
loaded Main.class as the parent to BootClassLoader. I understand that the 
current way of doing it simplifies a lot the issues of classloading and class 
conflict (classes loaded from the CLASSPATH), but it would be good to have a 
way to turn that behaviour off for the whole Eclipse or for some plugins.

Thanks!

JP Moresmau
http://www.soamai.com