One more thing - adding your plugin classes to the distributed Ibator JAR is a serious kludge and I do not recommend it for any reason. There is no reason to ever do this. Jeff Butler
On Sun, Jun 21, 2009 at 10:20 PM, Chad McHenry <mchen...@gmail.com> wrote: > I was having trouble using my ibator plugin from eclipse, getting the error > "Cannot instantiate object of type > com.example.ibatis.ibator.plugins.ClassAnnotator" and found an old thread > [1] which references the same error. It appears it is still relevant (I > could only run my plugin via eclipse by putting my plugin classes into > $eclipse/plugins/org.apache.ibatis.ibator.core_1.2.1/ibator.jar). > > For using plugins, is the ant-task still the preferred way to use Ibator? I > use maven, and can use maven-antrun-plugin, but is it still true that any > changes made to generated files will be lost when using the ant version > since it does not merge java files? > > Are there plans, or a roadmap for Ibator? I'm spending a lot of time > getting this plugin working (and actually believe it will be worth it over > the course of multiple projects). I'm wondering if I can contribute back to > the ibator-core, but would hesitate if there is going to be a drastic > redesign for ibatis-3.0. > > ...Chad > > [1] > http://www.nabble.com/Re:-ibator-question-about--element-p19222727.html > >