Bug 8655 - DCR - Support for external class folders
Summary: DCR - Support for external class folders
Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME
Alias: None
Product: JDT
Classification: Eclipse Project
Component: Core (show other bugs)
Version: 2.0   Edit
Hardware: PC Windows NT
: P3 normal (vote)
Target Milestone: 2.1   Edit
Assignee: Philipe Mulet CLA
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: 8720 24033 (view as bug list)
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Reported: 2002-01-29 04:36 EST by Dani Megert CLA
Modified: 2003-06-12 06:44 EDT (History)
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Description Dani Megert CLA 2002-01-29 04:36:20 EST 
We only support class folders which are in the workspace. Since we allow
external JARs/libraries we should also support external class folders.

This was raised in the Eclipse newsgroup:
news://eclipse.org:119/a35nod$bsm$1@rogue.oti.com
Comment 1 Erich Gamma CLA 2002-01-29 08:33:40 EST 
If we enable this then we should also support class path variables to refer to 
external folders in the UI.

Moving to jdt-core for consideration.
Comment 2 Philipe Mulet CLA 2002-01-29 18:27:21 EST 
These are not on the plan for 2.0, and would be quite demanding.
A reason not to consider them as external JARs is that these classfiles could 
change and we have no easy way to detect their changing, as opposed to JARs 
which content isn't assumed to change. If not, then one could simply jarify the 
classfiles...

In order to ease the change detection process, we would need a hook onto 
the 'refresh from local' action, allowing us to react and check all external 
elements (JARs and classfiles). Then this would be acceptable maybe.

Anyway, deferring post 2.0
Comment 3 Philipe Mulet CLA 2002-01-30 06:59:22 EST 
*** Bug 8720 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 4 Philipe Mulet CLA 2002-10-02 05:38:04 EDT 
*** Bug 24033 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 5 Philipe Mulet CLA 2003-06-12 06:44:17 EDT 
Got addressed by using linked resource in 2.1.
Comment 6 Philipe Mulet CLA 2003-06-12 06:44:34 EDT 
Closing