[news.eclipse.platform] Re: Exporting Plug-ins with external dependencie

[Jacek Pospychala <jacek.pospychala@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Christian,

you should add your jar to plug-in class-path (on "Runtime" page in 
plug-in editor). You can also make certain packages from the jar 
available outside, by exporting them.

Christian Gudrian napisaÅ(a):
> Hello!
>
> Given an external 3rd party library "alice.jar" with the class "FooTask"
> which implements a custom Ant Task.
>
> Now I want to create an Eclipse Plug-in that contributes another custom
> Ant Task "BarTask" (written by me) which derives from FooTask?
>
> Here's what I did:
>
> I created an empty Plug-in with a source folder that contains the
> BarTask.java file.  I then added the external JAR "alice.jar" to the
> Build Path of the project.  Building the project now works as expected.
>
> However, when I deploy the Plug-in into a folder, the external JAR file
> obviously is not added to the Build Path, since the compiler complains
> that the "import cannot be resolved" and (consequently) "FooBar cannot
> be resolved to a type".
>
> What am I doing wrong?
>
> Christian