preference extension package to jar

Question

http://www.eclipse.org/articles/article.php?file=Article-Preferences/article.html did somebody see this paper? and I executed the example, it is run as eclipse application successfully, however when I packaged it to jar and pushed the jar package to eclipse's plugin directory , there was no effect in eclipse, thanks for your anwser

Answer 1

You don't seem to have the plugin.xml (and possibly other things) in your build.properties. A more or less standard build.properties for a plug-in would be:

source.. = src/
output.. = bin/
bin.includes = META-INF/,\
           .,\
           OSGI-INF/,\
           plugin.xml

OSGI-INF can be left out if you don't have that folder.