[jbosstools-issues] [JBoss JIRA] (JBIDE-3628) Plugins should be .jar's not directories for efficiency sake

[Mickael Istria (JIRA)]

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Mickael Istria commented on JBIDE-3628:
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While hibernate.libs , xpcom or xulrunner contains some resources (jar, .o or .dll) that may need to be directly accessible in filesystem, there is IMO no obvious reason for other bundles to be unpacked.
                
> Plugins should be .jar's not directories for efficiency sake
> ------------------------------------------------------------
>
>                 Key: JBIDE-3628
>                 URL: https://issues.jboss.org/browse/JBIDE-3628
>             Project: Tools (JBoss Tools)
>          Issue Type: Feature Request
>          Components: build, common/jst/core, freemarker, hibernate, jsf, visual-page-editor-core
>            Reporter: Max Rydahl Andersen
>            Assignee: Denis Golovin
>            Priority: Critical
>             Fix For: 4.2.0.Alpha2
>
>         Attachments: exception.log
>
>
> 65 of our plugins are bundled exploded instead of a .jar
> Some are probably just mistakes and can easily be packed others are because of legacy code assuming it can access the files directly and even store data in the plugins - that should be fixed.
> What should be fixed:
> 1. The way how plug-ins use images in plugin.xml, in java code and in .meta xmodel files
> 2. Plug-ins that loads resources should be aware that they are in jar now (VPE should be able to load templates from plugin jar files)
> 3. Some plug-ins contain resources registered in XML catalog
> 4. common.projecttemplates contains resources that is used as template for new projects
> 5. Help content that is stored in zip files should be unpacked 
> 6. TBD

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