Re: Third party jar dependencies

On 21/09/2007, at 1:07 AM, John Pollard wrote:

> Within a WO app managed with Eclipse/WOLips I am attempting to add  
> third party jars into a local directory.
>
> The jars are currently in /Library/Java/Extensions and while in  
> there, everything works fine.
>
> I created a lib directory as a top level sub-directory under my  
> project directory and placed the jars in there and added them to  
> the build path.
>
> I also updated build.xml to ensure they are bundled in the release,  
> but that is not important to this question.
>
> The application fails to find symbols in jars in my lib directory  
> that are on the build path. When the jars are in /Library/Java/ 
> Extensions they work ok.

Have you tried "Project > Clean..."?

> For example, the following line:
> import org.apache.commons.digester.*;
> Gives: The import org.apache.commons cannot be resolved.
> despite the digester jar being in my lib directory.
>
> One thing appears odd that may be a clue, my lib folder under the  
> project is displayed with a ? next to it

Using svn? It's not added to the repository yet.

> and the jars are not shown under it where they actually live on the  
> file system, they are shown at the top level (looking messy).

Adjust the filters (See "▽ > Filters..." top right corner of Package  
Explorer)

with regards,
--

Lachlan Deck