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

[Paul Webster <pwebster@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Jan Tvorup wrote:
> 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).

If your plugin contains 3rd party jar files, it must be deployed as a 
directory plugin, not a jar plugin, since eclipse can't load JARs from 
inside of JARs.

I've heard this causes problems with Java Web Start, but I don't know 
for sure.

BTW: You can create a plugin out of existing 3rdparty jars using 
New>Plug-in Development>Plug-in from existing JAR archives.

Later,
PW