[news.eclipse.tools] Re: Does M4 remove the need for a special "ui" clas

[Andre Weinand <Andre_Weinand@xxxxxxx>]

On 20.12.2002 2:41 Uhr, in article scott-31569D.17413319122002@xxxxxxxxxxx,
"Scott Ellsworth" <scott@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Hi, all.
> 
> ISTR reading that 2.1 will handle a split jdk (ie one where the ui
> classes are stored in a seperate jar) more gracefully than 2.0.
> 
> Has that support made it to M4?
> 
> I am running on MacOS X, and it stores all of the Swing classes in
> ui.jar, deep inside JAVA_HOME.  My old builds all have a seperate cp
> variable to account for it, and I was wondering if this is stil needed.
> 
> Scott

Scott, the support for a split jdk has been in Eclipse for a long time, but
it is not (yet) enabled by default.

However, since a couple of weeks I automatically enable it for *new
projects* on MacOS X only (see Preferences/Java/NewProjects).

For existing projects you can change it in the Java Build Class properties:
select the 'Libraries' tab and remove your existing variable based entries
for the jdk. Then add the 'JRE System Library' with the 'Add Library...'
button. You get a new JRE container with all the parts of your jdk
(class.jar, ui.jar).

--andre