[news.eclipse.technology] Sharing of a jar across the plug-ins

[pradnya.bhoite@xxxxxxxxx (Pradnya Bhoite)]

Hello,

I want to share a same copy of a jar file across the plug-ins. I have 
created a PDE project and modified the plug-in code as per my requirement. 
To share a common jar I followed the solution mentioned on the following 
link,
http://www.awprofessional.com/articles/article.asp?p=370626&seqNum=13&rl=1 

Solution is to create a new plug-in out of the jar file I want to use 
across the other plug-ins. Used the option: New->Project->Plug-in 
Development->Plug-in from existing JAR archieves to create a plug-in from 
a jar file. But getting following error in 'Error Log' after that. Plese 
guide me how to remove this error:

Problems occurred when invoking code from plug-in: 
"org.eclipse.core.resources".
Exception Stack Trace:
java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: Path must include project and resource 
name: /org.eclipse.jox
	at org.eclipse.core.runtime.Assert.isLegal(Assert.java:62)
	at 
org.eclipse.core.internal.resources.Workspace.newResource(Workspace.java:1571)
	at 
org.eclipse.core.internal.resources.Container.getFolder(Container.java:130)
	at 
org.eclipse.pde.internal.core.util.ManifestUtils.findPackageFragmentRoots(ManifestUtils.java:61)
	at 
org.eclipse.pde.internal.core.builders.BundleErrorReporter.validateExportPackages(BundleErrorReporter.java:122)
	at 
org.eclipse.pde.internal.core.builders.BundleErrorReporter.validateContent(BundleErrorReporter.java:104)
	at 
org.eclipse.pde.internal.core.builders.ManifestConsistencyChecker.checkFile(ManifestConsistencyChecker.java:98)
	at 
org.eclipse.pde.internal.core.builders.ManifestConsistencyChecker.checkThisProject(ManifestConsistencyChecker.java:51)
	at 
org.eclipse.pde.internal.core.builders.ManifestConsistencyChecker.build(ManifestConsistencyChecker.java:40)
	at 
org.eclipse.core.internal.events.BuildManager$2.run(BuildManager.java:621)
	at org.eclipse.core.runtime.SafeRunner.run(SafeRunner.java:37)
	at 
org.eclipse.core.internal.events.BuildManager.basicBuild(BuildManager.java:163)
	at 
org.eclipse.core.internal.events.BuildManager.basicBuild(BuildManager.java:194)
	at 
org.eclipse.core.internal.events.BuildManager$1.run(BuildManager.java:243)
	at org.eclipse.core.runtime.SafeRunner.run(SafeRunner.java:37)
	at 
org.eclipse.core.internal.events.BuildManager.basicBuild(BuildManager.java:246)
	at 
org.eclipse.core.internal.events.BuildManager.basicBuildLoop(BuildManager.java:299)
	at 
org.eclipse.core.internal.events.BuildManager.build(BuildManager.java:331)
	at 
org.eclipse.core.internal.events.AutoBuildJob.doBuild(AutoBuildJob.java:156)
	at 
org.eclipse.core.internal.events.AutoBuildJob.run(AutoBuildJob.java:222)
	at org.eclipse.core.internal.jobs.Worker.run(Worker.java:58)