[alirezasa]

Hi all
Recently I've developed an eclipse plugin which actullay is an oda extension for birt.(and you may know that birt is a reporting application based on eclipse!) and I face this problem of classloading.
There we have some classes (which has to transfer data to/from database) in our j2ee application (deploys on a jboss server) and in my plugin I need to call them and access them.I deploy the platform (contains plugins,configuration,...) in WEB-INF directory of my war file so when the server runs it loads the platform and also my plugin.But as you may guess I cannot see my classes from my plugin.
(It's like a rat in a box!even if the cheese is in the same room as the box but rat cannot access it because he always search the box!How can I say rat to search outside the box for your cheese?)

[hmausolf]

Hi,

I think in your MANIFEST.MF, you have to register buddies. In your main plugin insert the line "Eclipse-BuddyPolicy: registered". Into the other plugins that have to access the same classloader insert "Eclipse-RegisterBuddy: some.other.plugin" with the name of your plugin replacing "some.other.plugin".

Hope that helps.
Good luck,
Heiko

[alirezasa]

hi,Heiko and thanks for your attention.
There is a problem with your suggested solution and it is:
the other plugins (you've mentioned) our my application main classes which I have to use them in so many places.(Not only in my plugin)I've tested your solution but then I cannot deploy my war file and jboss cannot instantiate my classes.

[oxygold]

hi, alirezasa

In my opinion, you can process it in the code, when you are using some certain class, you can utilize the main class of the plugin to get the class loader of the plugin (use the getPluginClassLoader() method), then call the loadClass() method to load the certain class.

wish it could be helpful.

[oxygold]

hi, alirezasa

In my opinion, you can process it in the code, when you are using some certain class, you can utilize the main class of the plugin to get the class loader of the plugin (use the getPluginClassLoader() method), then call the loadClass() method to load the certain class.

wish it could be helpful.