[platform-ant-dev] Planty integration issues

[Jared Burns <jared-eclipse@xxxxxxxxx>]

I've got Planty compiling in a source folder in the 
org.eclipse.ui.externaltools plug-in. With the thought that this information 
might be useful for the future, I figure I'll share the problems I've 
encountered.

The major issue with Planty thus far has been that it makes reference to 
org.eclipse.jdt* plug-ins, which Eclipse's Ant and External Tools plug-ins 
don't reference. My solution to the problem thus far has been to create a 
"copied" package and just copy the references classes from JDT.

Bob, the only problem I've seen with your contribution is that you were 
referencing Java 1.4 API in your ParseException class. It was simple to fix, 
but you might want to keep in mind for your other projects (like XMLBuddy) 
that Eclipse only requires Java 1.3. If you want your plug-ins to work 
wherever Eclipse works, you should thus limit yourself to 1.3 API.

I'm optimistic that I'll have the new source folder released to HEAD by the 
end of the day.

- Jared