[news.eclipse.platform.rcp] Re: JAR deployed with RCP Application

[Paul Webster <pwebster@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Gama Franco wrote:
> Greetings,
>
> I’m developing a Rich Client Application using the Eclipse RCP. This application needs to connect to a MySql Database, so I’m using a JDBC Driver packed in a Jar.
> The application runs well inside Eclipse, but when I deploy it the driver can not be loaded. 
> I’m deploying JDBC Jar with the application, but it looks like that the application can’t locate the driver.

you need to do extra work to find a 3rd party jar during runtime from a 
plugin ... one method is to create a library plugin, something like 
http://dev.eclipse.org/newslists/news.eclipse.platform.rcp/msg06980.html

Do searches on site:dev.eclipse.org news.eclipse 3rd party jars ... this 
subject comes up quite a bit.

Later,
PW