[news.eclipse.platform] Re: IJobManager

[man.hui@xxxxxxxxxxxxx (Man)]

Since I am really new to RCP / Eclipse Plug-in, please help on this.
Thank you very much!!!!

Man wrote:

> I want to use the package org.eclipse.core.runtime.jobs as my base to 
> create a job manager suiting my need. I can run the following HelloWorld 
> program successfully inside Rational.
> public class Test {

> 	public static void main(String[] args) {
> 		  Job job = new Job("My First Job") {
> 		     protected IStatus run(IProgressMonitor monitor) {
> 		           System.out.println("Hello World (from a background job)");
> 		           return Status.OK_STATUS;
> 		        }
> 		     };
> 		  job.setPriority(Job.SHORT);
> 		  job.schedule(); // start as soon as possible
> 	}
> }
> However, I cannot run it through the command below:
> "C:Program FilesJavajre1.5.0_06binjava.exe" -cp "C:Program 
FilesIBMRationalSDP6.0eclipsepluginsorg.eclipse.core.runtime_3.0.1runtime.jar;C:Program 
> FilesIBMRationalSDP6.0eclipsepluginsorg.eclipse.osgi_3.0.1osgi.jar" 
> Test
> Now I have the following questions:
> 1. It seems to me that this package is a plugin of Eclipse. Is this the 
> reason why the program cannot be run outside of eclipse? (Eclipse plugin 
> would not work outside Eclipse??)
> 2. Is there any way that I can use this package through command line? 
> 3. Could jobs be scheduled across JVM? across machine?
> Thank you very much for any help!!!