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Charles Ma
Charles Ma

Reputation: 49131

searching through .jar files eclipse

I'm porting a few java gwt projects into eclipse and the projects depends on many external .jar files, some of the dependencies seem to be dynamically linked so eclipse isn't picking up the missing links while running the ide.

At run time, I often get exceptions that say for example 'import bar.foo.XML' is missing or some FooBar class definition is missing and it always takes me a while to figure out which .jar file these classes/libraries belong to so I can add them to the run path.

Is there a quick way to search which .jar files contain what classes and what other library they depend on?

Upvotes: 2

Views: 14844

Answers (3)

VonC
VonC

Reputation: 1323095

An oldie, but still good, and integrated into eclipse:

JarClassFinder:

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Update 2013: the project still exists in a different form as an independent app JarClassFinder.
In term of Eclipse plugin, it is no longer maintained, and you only have variant like "BundleclassFinder".

Other (manual) ways to find a class within jars: "Java: How do I know which jar file to use given a class name?"

Upvotes: 1

Thorbjørn Ravn Andersen
Thorbjørn Ravn Andersen

Reputation: 75346

Can't you just mark all the jar-files in Eclipse and right-click->add to Build Path?

Upvotes: 0

kgiannakakis
kgiannakakis

Reputation: 104168

You need a tool like Jar Analyzer

Upvotes: 0

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