Question

I am currently running Eclipse 3.7 Indigo
My current project is a Plug-in Project

I wanted to try out the product called icePDF in my existing project.
So I downloaded the two required jar files from the binary download.
icepdf-core.jar and icepdf-viewer.jar

So I created a new plug-in project from existing jars. I am added the two jar files and created the plug-in project. I then exported the project and produced a project jar file .

Went back in to my existing project where I want to use the features of icePDF.
Went to dependencies -> Required Plug-ins -> Added my new icePDF plugin.

I am sure that I am missing a key step. Because as soon as I close the icePDF project in Package Explorer. I get a error in my main project.

Error : Missing Required Plug-in

What I don’t understand is I have at least 12 other required plug-ins, none of them are open.

Was this the right way to try and add the icePDF jars to my existing project? Was there a way to just incorporate the jars in to the plug-in project without having to create the new project?

EDIT
Looks like icePDF primarily uses Swing. My project is SWT based, I do not want to use Swing in the project. I am looking for something that will view a existing pdf, convert a pdf and print a pdf to local printer.

Any suggestions??

Answer 1

It is normal behavior that Eclipse reports an error when a required plugin is closed, if this plugin is only available through your workspace. I assume that the other required plugins are ‘standard’ Eclipse plugins, such as EMF; those do not have to be in your workspace, as they are directly installed into your Eclipse platform.

Another way would be to put the original Jars into your plugin project. Just create a folder, e.g. lib/, paste the Jars there, and add them to the plugin project’s class path. The latter is a bit tricky, as you have to add them in the Project Properties as well as in the Manifest.ml (in the ‘runtime’ tab of the plugin.xml-editor, IIRC) and the build.properties file.