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Copyright © 2009 Lars Vogel
07.06.2010
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| Revision 0.1 | 26.07.2009 | Lars Vogel |
| Separated from http://www.vogella.de/articles/RichClientPlatform/article.html | ||
| Revision 0.2 | 17.10.2009 | Lars Vogel |
| Minor rework | ||
| Revision 0.3 | 07.06.2010 | Lars Vogel |
| Update to Eclipse 3.6 (Helios) | ||
Table of Contents
The standard deployment format for Java is a .jar file. A jar file is a zip file which contains the necessary resources to use the Java libraries, e.g. the class files.
In Eclipse RCP and Eclipse plugin development you work with Eclipse bundles or OSGi bundles . If you want to use standard Java libraries (jars) in this environment you have to convert them to a plugin. After creating a new plugin project, you have to export the necessary packages for these jars and and add the new plugin as a dependency to the plugin which is using the functionality provided by the new plugin.
If you repackage a jars into a plugin it is wise to check if the license allows this.