Keep external JARs outside the project JAR while creating product in Eclipse

Question

My eclipse project structure is as given below
->MyProject
-->JRE System Lib
-->plugin dependencies
-->src
-->extJars (contains some external JARs)
-->icons(contains icons files)
-->META-INF
-->build.properties
-->plugin.xml
-->Myproject.product

When I export MyProject as a product using Eclipse MyProject.product, complete files in MyProject including ExtJars and icons get bundled as a single JAR file. MyProject/plugins/MyProject_1.0.0.0.jar

I want extJars and icons to be kept outside that single JAR file.

Kindly help me in achieving this.

Thank You

There are ways to access objects in a plugin jar as ordinary files if required. Depending on exactly what you want to do that may be an alternative. — greg-449

greg-449 greg-449 · Accepted Answer · 2014-06-04T07:20:50

If you use 'features' to build your product you can use the 'unpack the plug-in archive after the installation' option in the 'feature.xml' to have the plug-in expanded when it is installed.

Keep external JARs outside the project JAR while creating product in Eclipse

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