A very nice addition in relation to loading native libraries from plugins has been added to the next Eclipse release (version 3.3) in the M4 milestone build. While it looks like the addition is only applicable to the SWT native libraries I really hope that the addition will also be applicable to custom plugins at some point in the near future as it would make devlopment of plugins with native access much easier.
Why is this of interest to you? Why because Sametime is built upon Lotus Expeditor (actually a pre-release of Lotus Expeditor) which in turn is built upon Eclipse 3.2…
I don’t think there is much hope of relief any time soon however… 🙁 Judging from how long it has taken IBM to move from previous Eclipse releases for their other products such as Rational Application Developer I don’t think that Expeditor will be any different and I think we will be “stuck” on Eclipse 3.2 for Sametime development for a long time.
There are solutions however – stay tuned for my upcoming article in THE VIEW to read more… 🙂
Full article: Bleeding Edge 12/13/06 – No More java.library.path
