Re: NetBeans Module development, how to use an external jar library.

Which kind of special logic do you want to use? I wrote some java hints
too, but I never had to use tools.jar nor other wrapped jars

See https://github.com/markiewb/nb-additional-hints

With kind regards, markiewb

2015-11-30 11:30 GMT+01:00 -Silver- <[email protected]>:

> Hi, I'm developing a NetBeans module to have a customized Java hint but I
> have some problem to use the Java library Java\jdk8\libs\tools.jar that I
> need to parse the code.
> In particular I need to use the com.sun.tools.javac.tree.JCTree.JCAssignOp
> class to manage the cases in which the code contains the  +=    -=    *=
> /=   assignment operators.
> This library can not be added to my Netbeans module project using
> ProjectProperties -> Libraries -> Module Dependencies (or at least I did't
> find it) and if I add it using ProjectProperties -> Libraries -> Wrapped
> JARs I can compile and run my module but it seems that the lib is loaded
> using a different ClassLoader so I have a ClassCastException when I try to
> cast a JCTree also if the cast is valid (and JCTree objects are not
> recognized when I use the instanceof operator).
>
> Could you kindly give me any hint about how I could solve this issue?
>
> Thanks in advance,
> best regards.
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