The statement is at the "Unzipping JARs" section of (Eclipse Help):

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-Tong

On Wed, Mar 12, 2008 at 6:04 AM, Marshall Schor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> Hi Tong,
>
> Can you post a URL or directions on how to find the article you
> reference from the Eclipse Help, below?  I searched but didn't find it.
>
> -Marshall
>
> Tong Fin wrote:
> > I did more investigation about the problem mentioned by Jörn.
> >
> > If the UIMA runtime plugin is NOT unzipped, its exported classes, for
> > example Annotation class, are NOT visible to the projects in the
> Workspace.
> >
> > It looks like we need to package the "org.apache.uima.runtime" runtime
> > plugin as a folder (instead of as a Jar) since not all Eclipse's tools
> can
> > handle Jar inside Jar.
> >
> > The following is the statement from the Eclipse Helps about the
> packaging:
> >
> > Whether the JARs should be zipped or unzipped depends on how you want to
> > package the plug-in. If the plug-in is to be shipped as a single JAR -
> which
> > is the recommended format as of Eclipse 3.1 - the individual JAR
> archives
> > should be unzipped. If the plug-in is to be shipped as a flat directory,
> > then the individual JAR archives should be left intact.
> > -- Tong
> >
> > On Tue, Mar 11, 2008 at 9:19 PM, Tong Fin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >
> >
> >> Hi Jorn,
> >> I did install the runtime plugin jar without unzipped and the CDE runs
> OK.
> >> I am using Eclipse 3.3.1.1.
> >>
> >> The recommended way for "Jar(s) inside Jar plugin" is to unzipped as
> you
> >> did to make it works. But, the way we build the Uima runtime plugin is
> not
> >> for unzipping.
> >>
> >> -- Tong
> >>
> >>
> >> On Tue, Mar 11, 2008 at 3:29 PM, Jörn Kottmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> wrote:
> >>
> >>
> >>> Hello,
> >>>
> >>> do we have to unzip the runtime jar file to make it work with eclipse
> ?
> >>>
> >>> I tried to build the Cas Editor but it failed because it could not
> >>> find the necessary classes inside the runtime plugin,
> >>> after I unzipped the runtime plugin file everything could be found.
> >>>
> >>> Jörn
> >>>
> >>
> >>
> >
> >
>
>

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