[news.eclipse.platform.pde] Re: External Jars and PDE?

[Chris Aniszczyk <zx@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

klm wrote:
> I have made a PDE project (Hello world, control). The plugin should 
> launch an application that I have written. But this application depends 
> on another external jar.
>
> I have tried to add this external jar to the build path but that does 
> not work. How do I add external jars to a PDE project?

You shouldn't be using external jars and hacking them on your build 
path. PDE manages the classpath for you based on the dependencies 
expressed in your MANIFEST.MF... so you need to get your dependency in 
the form of a plug-in (bundle) and add it to the target platform.

Cheers,

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