The statement is at the "Unzipping JARs" section of (Eclipse Help):
Plug-in Development Environment Guide <../../../../../nav/4> > Tools<../../../../../nav/4_1>> New Project Creation Wizards<../../../../../topic/org.eclipse.pde.doc.user/guide/tools/project_wizards/new_project_wizards.htm>> Plug-in From Existing JAR Archives -Tong On Wed, Mar 12, 2008 at 6:04 AM, Marshall Schor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi Tong, > > Can you post a URL or directions on how to find the article you > reference from the Eclipse Help, below? I searched but didn't find it. > > -Marshall > > Tong Fin wrote: > > I did more investigation about the problem mentioned by Jörn. > > > > If the UIMA runtime plugin is NOT unzipped, its exported classes, for > > example Annotation class, are NOT visible to the projects in the > Workspace. > > > > It looks like we need to package the "org.apache.uima.runtime" runtime > > plugin as a folder (instead of as a Jar) since not all Eclipse's tools > can > > handle Jar inside Jar. > > > > The following is the statement from the Eclipse Helps about the > packaging: > > > > Whether the JARs should be zipped or unzipped depends on how you want to > > package the plug-in. If the plug-in is to be shipped as a single JAR - > which > > is the recommended format as of Eclipse 3.1 - the individual JAR > archives > > should be unzipped. If the plug-in is to be shipped as a flat directory, > > then the individual JAR archives should be left intact. > > -- Tong > > > > On Tue, Mar 11, 2008 at 9:19 PM, Tong Fin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > >> Hi Jorn, > >> I did install the runtime plugin jar without unzipped and the CDE runs > OK. > >> I am using Eclipse 3.3.1.1. > >> > >> The recommended way for "Jar(s) inside Jar plugin" is to unzipped as > you > >> did to make it works. But, the way we build the Uima runtime plugin is > not > >> for unzipping. > >> > >> -- Tong > >> > >> > >> On Tue, Mar 11, 2008 at 3:29 PM, Jörn Kottmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > >> > >> > >>> Hello, > >>> > >>> do we have to unzip the runtime jar file to make it work with eclipse > ? > >>> > >>> I tried to build the Cas Editor but it failed because it could not > >>> find the necessary classes inside the runtime plugin, > >>> after I unzipped the runtime plugin file everything could be found. > >>> > >>> Jörn > >>> > >> > >> > > > > > >
