[news.eclipse.platform] Re: Eclipse ignoring JAVA_HOME?

[John Arthorne <john@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Sorry, I may have misunderstood you.  Are you writing a plugin for 
Eclipse, or writing a plain Java program using eclipse?  I was answering 
for the eclipse plugin development case.  If you are writing a plain 
Java program and just launching it from Eclipse, no extra arguments 
should be required. When you launch the program for Eclipse, right click 
on the launch in the "Debug" view, and look at "Properties". This will 
tell you the exact command line that Eclipse used to launch your 
application. This might point to what you are doing differently from 
running at the command line.
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Tshwala wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I tried this 
>
>
> > eclipse -vmargs -Dosgi.parentClassloader="ext"
>
>
> and it didn't make any difference so I went back to addding
> SWT manually. I have a few more questions though.
>
> 1)My rxtx jar works out of the ext directory without adding it manually to
> the java bild path, why?
>
> 2)Even after adding mysql-connector-java manually to the java build path I
> still get the following error..
>
> java.lang.ClassNotFoundException: com/mysql/jdbc/Driver
> 	at java.lang.Class.forName0(Native Method)
>
> at the line
>   Class.forName("com.mysql.jdbc.Driver").newInstance();
>
> Again this works perfectly in the console.
>
> 3)If I were to use the line
>
>
> > eclipse -vmargs -Dosgi.parentClassloader="ext"
>
>
> Where would I specify the .so files for eclipse for example?
>
> Thanks
> Tshwala