[pde-ui-dev] Problems importing binary projects. Please help!!!

[vde@xxxxxxxx]

hi,

i'm trying to import a jar file into eclipse. i created a 
project and then tried to import the jar into that. however, 
i am facing some problems and just can't figure out how to 
fix them.

1) i'm getting a number of error messages. they say 
missing required Java project: org.eclipse.ant.core

similarly they list a number of other missing Java projects.
i found out that these are binary projects that need to be 
imported separately. i tried to follow the instructions for 
this from the PDE guide in help. but when i import a binary 
project, it creates a separate project for it and i get more 
error messages that read something like

The project was not built since it depends on 
org.eclipse.ui, which failed to build.

and similarly other error messages naming dependency on some 
other project.

i seem to be going round in circles! 

in the PDE guide, i was looking at Binary project self-
hosting under self-hosting. i was following the instructions 
in that. there is one part where i'm not sure what to do and 
don't know if that's what's creating the problem. it says

Before importing binary projects, it is important to 
configure PDE for binary self-hosting. Since we will not use 
external plug-ins to resolved references, we should disable 
them in Preferences.

i didn't know how to do the above because i couldn't find 
any way to do this in Preferences.

would someone please be able to tell me what i'm doing wrong 
and how to fix it?

-vaishali

Graduate Student
Department of Computer Science
University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign