[news.eclipse.platform] Re: Problems after upgrading from Eclipse 3.1 to

[Paul Webster <pwebster@xxxxxxxxxx>]

AFAIK this difference is an added tooling check to help cut down on the 
"It works in eclipse but fails when I export it" problems.

Eclipse plugins need to get info from other plugins ... i.e. in runtime 
if it's not in a plugin, then it's not visible*

You can use info like 
http://wiki.eclipse.org/index.php/Plug-in_Development_Environment to 
create plugins for your external jars or include them in a common 
library plugin.


*there are a very few exceptions to this, almost all dangerous.


Later,
PW