[news.eclipse.platform.rcp] Re: All Plugins as JAR's

[Peter Manahan <manahan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Torsten Bergmann wrote:
> Hi,
>
> after exporting my RCP product with the "product export wizard" some of
> the required plugins for the standalone applicationn are bundled as JAR 
> components
> and some are not. (for instance org.eclipse.help.webapp_3.1.0 or 
> org.eclipse.tomcat_4.1.30.1
> required for the help system)
>
> I would like to have all required plugins in the plugin directory as JAR's 
> (also to later
> distribute the application using JavaWebstart).  Just transforming them to 
> jar's using
> jar.exe and deleting the directory does'nt help. The runtime wont find them 
> in this case.
>
> What can I do?
>
> Thanks
> Torsten 

Sometimes plugins can't be packaged as jars. In the case of tomcat the 
tomcat application expects to be on the filesytem on not in a jar. I 
believe also there are class loading problems in plugins which contain 
other jar files. Ie jars within jars.

Peter