[news.eclipse.platform] Re: External Plug-in Modification

["Bob" <bsagusti@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Paul,
(note my earlier versions below. This is due to my eclipse being from a 
vendor that supplies a toolchain such that I can't update my eclipse 
installation, or I will have no functionality with my much needed 
toolchain.)

The actual source is under 
"plugins\org.eclipse.platform.source_2.1.1\src\org.apache.ant_1.5.3" in a 
zip file called antsrc.zip. Way down the directory tree in this zip file is 
the file FTP.java.

The path plugins\org.apache.ant_1.5.3 contains a jar called optional.jar 
where way down in it's directory tree resides FTP.class in binary form.

I can change the ftp port in the zipped source with no problem obviously. My 
problem is that i don't know how to build the jar. If I could build the file 
optional.jar I'm assuming once I installed it under 
plugins\org.apache.ant_1.5.3, I would have my FTP client working with my new 
port.

Please forgive my java ignorance, for I work in c and c++. (I'm trying)

If you are tiring of this, maybe you could at least point me to a website 
that has this procedure detailed. I have looked but there are so many hits 
for these keywords it's hard to parse through it all. So far I've found 
nothing.

Regards and thanks,

Bob


"Paul Webster" <pwebster@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message 
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> Bob wrote:
>>
>> Why can't I perform your first suggested method of doing this?
>
>
> Because the ant plugin, AFAIK, is a collection of ant jars.  When I do the 
> File>Import...>Plug-ins and Fragments and import org.apache.ant I get a 
> plugin project with a lot of jar files in it.
>
> You still have to replace the Ftp.class file in the correct jar. There's 
> no FTP.java file to edit in the eclipse plugin, although the plugin does 
> contain source zip files.
>
> Later,
> PW
>
>