[protege-discussion] plugin and libraries

[Tania Tudorache]

Julien,

If you add a jar to your plugin directory, your plugin should be able to 
access the classes of the jar. When you run Protege with your plugin in 
Eclipse, all the jars are added to the classpath. So, what you could try 
to do is to add explicitly the saxon8.jar to the classpath when starting 
Protege.

If you start Protege with the executable (for example, Protege.exe on 
Windows platform) then the classpath is set from the Protege.lax file. 
You can edit in the Protege.lax file the line:

lax.class.path=protege.jar:looks.jar:unicode_panel.jar:driver.jar:driver0.jar:driver1.jar:driver2.jar:lax.jar

Add at the end of this line your jar. You can use a relative path, like: 
"plugins\myPlugin\saxon8.jar"

If you start Protege using the batch script (run_protege.bat or 
run_protege.sh), you should adjust in it the JARS variable.

Tania



julien lejeune wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I am trying to develop a plugin but I have some problems to add a library
> that I need for it.
> In fact I use the library "saxon8.jar" and I added this JAR file in
> "protege_directory\plugins\myPlugin\saxon8.jar" (with myPlugin.jar)
> But I have this message :
> javax.xml.transform.TransformerFactoryConfigurationError: Provider
> net.sf.saxon.TransformerFactoryImpl could not be instantiated:
> java.lang.NullPointerException
>
> When I tested my plugin with my IDE (Eclipse) I  didn't have problems so I
> think that my library is not well loaded in the  application.
>
> Can somebody help me ?
>
> JLJ
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