I believe the need for the plugin has diminished with recent releases of Eclipse. I vaguely recall a project for Eclipse's JDT that would be able to recognize any JRE distribution, regardless of how it was packaged.
-Nathan On Dec 8, 2007 4:10 AM, Alexey Petrenko <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > It's not mandatory, but just makes life easier :) > The main purpose of Harmony plugin is to explain Eclipse where to get > all the needed jars and sources. > > If you want to use Harmony with Eclipse but without plugin then you > should add Harmony JRE as usual and then add jars from bin/default > directory to the list. > > Tim can comment about Eclipse <=> plugin version compatibility. > > SY, Alexey > > > 2007/12/8, Vasily Levchenko <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > Hi folks, > > one of my user has some doubts about using Harmony JRE with Eclipse > > 3.2(see > > http://softwarecommunity.intel.com/isn/Community/en-US/forums/ShowThread.aspx?PostID=30245155#30245155for > > details), because some notes about Eclipse plugin ( > > http://harmony.apache.org/documentation/eclipse_update). Could anybody so > > please to clarify the Harmony plug-in role and its mandatory plug-in to use > > Harmony JRE in Eclipse? > > > > -- > > --vvl > > >
