Question

I am developing an eclipse plugin. It has other plugin/feature dependencies. However I want to add my own favorite JAR/libriaries to it, like say logback for example. How can I do this so that when I eventually deploy it to an update site, it will have these jars on the classpath?

Also, I am currently using eclipse to run the plugin (it opens another instance of eclipse) to run this. This will also need to have the jar on the classpath.

Answer 1

You can try these steps :-

1. Use Import>File System to import the jar files into your plugin project, say in the /lib directory.
2. Use “Add…” to add the jars to the classpath section of the plugin.xml>Runtime tab.
3. Use “New…” to add “.” library back (with no quotes, of course).
4. make sure your binary build exports the new jar files on the plugin.xml>Build tab.
5. save.
6. on the project, use context menu>PDE Tools>Update Classpath to correctly add the jars to the eclipse project classpath.