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Bug 22848

Summary: Jar Export should remember configurations [jar creation]
Product: [Eclipse Project] JDT Reporter: Brian Cort <briancort>
Component: UIAssignee: JDT-UI-Inbox <jdt-ui-inbox>
Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME QA Contact:
Severity: enhancement    
Priority: P4 Keywords: helpwanted
Version: 2.0   
Target Milestone: ---   
Hardware: PC   
OS: Windows 2000   
Whiteboard:

Description Brian Cort CLA 2002-08-26 14:36:46 EDT 
When exporting a jar file from a project, eclipse should offer previous export
configurations as options. Having to redescribe the items to include/exclude is
very error-prone. UI to name export configurations, just as can be done for
run-configurations seems appropriate.

I have also become very fond of JBuilder's jar configuration options, which
include the option to always rebuild jar files when rebuilding source. This may
not be entirely appropriate given eclipse's incremental build approach, but an
option to always re-export jars before running would be great. This along with
an option to then run from the created jars, would greatly improve the ability
to test within eclipse from the actual runtime files.
Comment 1 Jerome Lanneluc CLA 2002-08-27 05:23:07 EDT 
Jar export is provided by UI.
Comment 2 Erich Gamma CLA 2002-08-28 05:32:50 EDT 
you can already store a JAR configuration. See the option "Save a description 
of this JAR in the workspace.

Support for a "post JAR builder" has currently a lower priority
Comment 3 Dani Megert CLA 2003-01-16 06:34:34 EST 
You can store an export configuration in a so called JAR description file (see
JAR Exporter's Option page). This will generate a file with .jardesc extension.

To recreate the same JAR simply select the .jardesc file and select "Create JAR"
from the context menu. Of course you can also open the JAR Exporter for a given
.jardesc file.

Afer 2.2 we might provide support to generate an ANT build file out of an
existing .jardesc or investigate if we can register .jardesc as an external builder.
Comment 4 Dirk Baeumer CLA 2004-08-18 06:20:56 EDT 
No further action  planned. You can either store in a jardesc file or use ant 
and an external builder to build the Jar file on very compile/build.