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Re: Eclipse vs plugin.jar

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On 28/01/2011 17:23, Tom Anderson allegedly wrote:
> Good day!
>
> We're writing an applet. It does uses LiveConnect to talk to JavaScript
> on the page. The classes for that - JSObject and friends - are in
> plugin.jar, which can be found in the JRE lib directory.
>
> We're developing using Eclipse. Eclipse has no idea about plugin.jar.
>
> What's the right way to teach it?
>
> We could put a copy of plugin.jar in our project. That's easy, but means
> we're not using the installed version, which leaves us vulnerable to
> version mismatch if Sun decides to make changes to this decade-old piece
> of code.
>
> We could add an external jar reference. That's also easy, and uses the
> installed jar, but involves hardcoding the path to the JRE in the metadata.
>
> We could use a classpath variable for the JRE's location, and add an
> external JAR reference relative to that, which uses the installed jar
> and doesn't hardcode the location, but it means everyone has to add a
> new variable to their workspace (there isn't a predefined one for
> JAVA_HOME or JRE_HOME, annoyingly).
>
> We could define a 'library', which is some sort of bundle of jars, which
> has the disadvantages of all the above approaches, and none of the
> advantages.
>
> Any thoughts?
>
> tom

Firstly, I assume the problem is it doesn't compile, isn't it? Because
it should run fine.

I'm not using Eclipse anymore these days, so I don't know exactly, but
isn't there some point where you define your "platform", viz. the JDK
you're using? Wouldn't including the lib in question belong in that step?

df.

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