Re: placement of non-plugin utility classes

Posted by Ben.BigHair on Jul 12, 2006; 3:36pm
URL: http://imagej.273.s1.nabble.com/placement-of-non-plugin-utility-classes-tp3702100p3702106.html

Wayne Rasband wrote:

>> If you have a utility class that you want to access from a single plugin,
>> you can package with that plugin in a JAR file. If more than one of your
>> plugins needs it, you can place it in the jre/lib/ext on Windows or
>> Linux,
>> or /Library/Java/Extensions on Mac OS X. Then you should be able to
>> access
>> it as normal (if it is packageless, without an import statement,
>> otherwise
>> importing the proper package).
>>
>> Alternately, you might be able to use ImageJ's PluginClassLoader, but I
>> haven't experimented with that much.
>
> ImageJ's PluginClassLoader automatically searches JAR files in the
> plugins folder or immediate subfolders. Utility classes should always be
> in a package to avoid class name conflicts.

Thanks!