[orbit-dev] How to do PDE build against nested jars

[David M Williams <david_williams@xxxxxxxxxx>]

I've seen a problem, that doesn't literally involve an orbit bundle, but 
think the experts here might have encountered in an orbit-like bundle. 
(Orbit-like in that it's consumed, as-is, provided by others, etc.). 

I think it's a well known limitation that PDE (in development environment, 
and PDE build) doesn't "see" classes from jars that are nested inside 
jarred bundles ... even though it works at runtime. 

Is there a solution for this build problem? Other than not jarring up the 
bundle? Is there some build.properties property that can be specified by 
the consuming bundle to get it to build? Is "jars.extra.classpath" used 
for this? 

Thanks,