[eclipselink-dev] Important Setting for PDE Project development in Eclip

[Tom Ware <tom.ware@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi All,

  'just wanted to let everyone who might be working with the EclipseLink PDE 
projects know about a setting that will likely save you some time.

  When using PDE projects transitively I was getting an Access Restriction 
compile error.

  e.g. org.eclipse.persistence.sdo depends on and exports 
org.eclipse.persistence.core, so a project that depends on 
org.eclipse.persistence.sdo should be able to use the API exported from core. 
Doing this was giving an exception of the form, "Access restriction: The method 
getTypeHelper() from the type HelperContext is not accessible due to restriction 
on required library...."

  The following setting works around the issue:

Window -> Preferences -> Java -> Compiler -> Errors/Warnings -> Deprecated and 
Restricted AP -> Forbidden Reference (access rules) = Warning (or Ignore)

-Tom