You'll want to read this article: http://www.eclipse.org/articles/Article-PDE-does-plugins/PDE-intro.html
Basically, it's used so that it knows what to include in the JAR file. Dave Oleg Mikheev wrote: > Hi again, > > I'm not too experienced with Eclipse so my question might be trivial. > I have a plug-in project that I'm building with ant4eclipse. > And I don't quite understand the role of build.properties file. > When I don't have it in my project ant4eclipse fails producing this > frightening Exception (which to my mind needs to be handled better): > java.lang.NullPointerException > at > net.sf.ant4eclipse.tools.pde.build.PluginBuilder.build(PluginBuilder.java:154) > > The content of build.properties makes not much sense b/c all that > info can be looked up from the .project file: > source.. = src/ > output.. = bin/ > bin.includes = plugin.xml,\ > META-INF/,\ > . > > So why does ant4eclipse require this file then? > > Thanks > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- > This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Moblin Your Move Developer's challenge > Build the coolest Linux based applications with Moblin SDK & win great prizes > Grand prize is a trip for two to an Open Source event anywhere in the world > http://moblin-contest.org/redirect.php?banner_id=100&url=/ > _______________________________________________ > Ant4eclipse-user mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/ant4eclipse-user > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Moblin Your Move Developer's challenge Build the coolest Linux based applications with Moblin SDK & win great prizes Grand prize is a trip for two to an Open Source event anywhere in the world http://moblin-contest.org/redirect.php?banner_id=100&url=/ _______________________________________________ Ant4eclipse-user mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/ant4eclipse-user
