[news.eclipse.dsdp] Is NAB for real?

[doug@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx (Doug Abbott)]

Hi all,

I'm getting a little desperate here.  I would really like to play around 
with the Native Application Builder, but can't seem to get it installed 
correctly.  The last two messages in the NAB newsgroup are both from me, 
seperated by about 3 months, and neither one was answered.

NAB doesn't appear to be available from an update site so I just 
downloaded the zip file and unzipped it in my eclipse directory.  I also 
downloaded and installed WideStudio/MWT per the instructions.  NAB-related 
JAR files show up in the features and plugins directories, but Eclipse 
doesn't seem to know anything about it.  The NAB perspective doesn't show 
up.

A clue emerged when I opened the PDE perspective to check the Plug-ins 
view.  Two errors appeared:

Unable to find feature.xml in directory: 
/usr/local/eclipse/features/org.eclipse.nab.mwt.native.win32_0.9.9.200806181757.jar

Unable to find feature.xml in directory: 
/usr/local/eclipse/features/org.eclipse.nab.mwt_0.9.9.200806181757.jar

The relevant system information is:
eclipse.buildId=I20080617-2000
java.version=1.6.0_03
java.vendor=Sun Microsystems Inc.
BootLoader constants: OS=linux, ARCH=x86, WS=gtk, NL=en_US
Command-line arguments:  -os linux -ws gtk -arch x86 -clean

So why are those two archives missing feature.xml and what do I do about 
it?

TIA,

Doug