[news.eclipse.platform.rcp] Re: Deploying Rich Client Applications using

[Ricky <ImmortalRick@xxxxxx>]

> I have been trying to solve a small problem with deploying Eclipse-based
> Rich Client Applications with Web Start. I get some  
> ClassNotFoundExceptions
> for classes that are there.

> As I started investigating, I found that for products, plug-ins are  
> created
> as folders with JARs inside them, while for Java Web Start it is JARs  
> with
> other JARs inside them, and I believe that to be the problem.

> Until now everything seems to work fine. However, when I add an external
> library to the system (I used the apache log4j library[1], as an  
> example),
> I can get it to run as a product (directory structure for plug-ins), but
> not as a Web Start launched application (JARs inside of JARs).

This kind of problem is an evergreen on the newsgroup. I make a wild guess  
as there a several possible sources for this problem.

On the build tab of your manifest.mf use "." as Runtime Information. At  
the moment you have probably a jar file. Click on "." (select it) and  
check "Include the selected library in the binary build". On the Runtime  
tab add "." to the classpath.

Anyway please post your manifest.mf and build.properties files. If you  
have a plugin.xml file with content other then extension definitions,  
report this too. The real exception would also help.

Ricky