When you add a JRE to Eclipse, it scans the JRE's directory for JAR files. For each JAR file it finds, it looks for corresponding source. It does so by climbing up the containment hierarchy looking for a file named "src.jar" or "src.zip" (if you're curious, see org.eclipse.jdt.internal.launching.StandardVMType#getDefaultSystemLibrarySou rce()).
Harmony JDK doesn't store is source this way (it seems to include the sources alongside the JAR files), so Eclipse doesn't find it (which means that if, for example, you browse the class java.lang.String, you get a "can't find the source" message in your editor). Is there a special reason why Harmony sources are represented the way they are? Is there any way to bundle 'em all up into a src.zip file? In a related question, I'm not sure that putting them in the "jre" directory is the right approach. I tend to think of the JRE directory as containing *only* the JRE (i.e. I could yank it out and use it as a JRE) and the sources--being part of the JDK--are outside of that directory. I also can't find the source for kernel.jar. Where is Object.java, Class.java, etc.? I can understand why you'd want to have the sources in different files. Eclipse handles J9 specially. It's probably time to generalize it's implementation to handle arbitrary source configurations (perhaps via extension point). Wayne -- Wayne Beaton The Eclipse Foundation [EMAIL PROTECTED] Skype, YIM: waynebeaton http://www.eclipse.org http://wbeaton.blogspot.com/ http://www.planeteclipse.org/planet/
