[news.eclipse.platform] Re: IJobManager

[John Arthorne <john@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

As I said, the two JARs you need are org.eclipse.core.jobs and 
org.eclipse.equinox.common. When you get the NoClassDefFoundError, what 
class is it referring to?
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Man wrote:
> I got the Eclipse 3.2 SDK and run the Hello World program with 
> org.eclipse.core.runtime_3.2.0.v20060603.jar, 
> org.eclipse.equinox.common_3.2.0.v20060603.jar and 
> org.eclipse.osgi_3.2.1.R32x_v20060919.jar. However, the program still 
> throws java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError same as before. Could you please 
> help?
> Besides, I cannot find the shutdown() method from the help 
> (http://help.eclipse.org/help32/index.jsp). Which method do you refer 
> exactly?
> Thank you!!!
> John Arthorne wrote:
>
> > The Jobs plugin in Eclipse 3.2 can be run outside of Eclipse, but I 
> > don't think this was true for the 3.0 version you are referencing. I 
> > suggest obtaining Eclipse platform 3.2, and then you can run 
> > standalone using the two jars org.eclipse.core.jobs_3.2.0 and 
> > org.eclipse.equinox.common_3.2.0.  The only additional requirement is 
> > that you must call JobManager.shutdown() at the end of your 
> > application to shut down the job manager's thread pool.  The Job API 
> > in version 3.2 is fully compatible with the API in version 3.0, so you 
> > can run the same client code against both versions.
> > --
>
>
> > 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!!!