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Bug 328936

Summary:	[IDE] [Workbench] Open Resource should support/index resources in JARs on project classpaths
Product:	[Eclipse Project] Platform	Reporter:	Randy Hudson <hudsonr>
Component:	IDE	Assignee:	Platform UI Triaged <platform-ui-triaged>
Status:	NEW ---	QA Contact:
Severity:	enhancement
Priority:	P3	CC:	daniel_megert, deepakazad, markus.kell.r, patrick_streule, prakash, remy.suen
Version:	3.6
Target Milestone:	---
Hardware:	PC
OS:	All
Whiteboard:

Description Randy Hudson

2010-10-28 10:40:12 EDT

I suppose it would be up to the JDT/PDE to contribute a resource provider, but first that would have to be an option.

Currently I can open a *.js file (from a target bundle's jar) by finding it in the package explorer, navigating to plugin dependencies, finding the jar, and expanding until I get to the .js file I want to open.  This is very cumbersome.  There needs to be an easier way to open that resource that doesn't require importing into my workspace.

Comment 1 Dani Megert

2010-11-03 04:53:28 EDT

This bug is about 'Open Resource' to provide an extension, so that files inside archives can be found too.

Comment 2 Markus Keller

2010-11-04 09:24:47 EDT

It would be strange to have only Open Resource work for Jars, but not Search, etc. See also bug 23341 and bug 23265.

Comment 3 Eclipse Webmaster

2019-09-06 16:14:54 EDT

This bug hasn't had any activity in quite some time. Maybe the problem got resolved, was a duplicate of something else, or became less pressing for some reason - or maybe it's still relevant but just hasn't been looked at yet.

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