Re: [ jEdit-devel ] JSwat plugin 1.1.1

[David T. <da...@bi...>]

Dirk,

Thanks for the fast feedback on the problems.

>Whoa! I didn't expected it that fast! Magnificent!

If only I could take the credit... Nathan had already done the work required
to allow separate plugins for a different project. As luck would have it, it
was done exactly as the JSwat plugin required. I could re-use about 70% of
the original plugin, so got lucky.

>jEdit on my VM (Sun JDK 1.3.0/Windows ME) failed to load any classes
>from your jswat-20010830.jar. This is probably because the MANIFEST is
>missing. After I repacked the jar with a manifest, everything was
>fine...

Thanks for testing it, I'll rebuild the jar with a manifest. For reference,
I'm using JDK 1.3.1 on Windows 2000.

>But I didn't get far:
>
>java.io.FileNotFoundException: C:\cygwin\home\JSwat.preferences (Die
angegebene Datei wurde nicht gefunden)
>[error]         at java.io.FileInputStream.open(Native Method)
>[error]         at java.io.FileInputStream.<init>(FileInputStream.java:64)
>[error]         at jswat.JSwatPlugin.initialiseJSwat(JSwatPlugin.java:237)
>[error]         at jswat.JSwatPlugin.start(JSwatPlugin.java:100)
>
>(the german error message says: The named file couldn't be found.)
>
>I created a 0-length JSwat.preferences and came a little bit further:

I will have to find a different way of loading the JSwat prefs. In the
original they are loaded using getSystemResourceAsStream, which really don't
work well with the JAR classloader (as far as I could tell). I changed the
code in the plugin to use a file in the users home directory. I think the
best idea is to extract the preferences file from the jwat-20010830 jar and
put that in your home directory. Perhaps I could do this automatically the
first time the plugin is run or something, but that sounds like a quick and
dirty fix.

>ClassNotFoundException: com.bluemarsh.util.LockException
>
>This is true. The class is missing in jswat-20010830. Please give a new
>one.

I'll look into where that is used. Mine has never asked for it so it'll be a
bit of an adventure to find what it does...

Regards,
David.