Category Image Enabling CodeSense for 3rd Party Jars


Let's say you have a bunch of jars added to your /Library/Java/Extensions folder and you want to have the benefit of CodeSense for those classes. Read on .......

NOTE: I am still using 10.3.7 and XCode 1.5 .... don't want to live on the bleeding edge of Tiger and XCode 2.1.X until we can afford to upgrade our application servers!

Using Terminap.app, navigate to the folder having the JavaIndex.xcode template:
$ cd /Developer/Extras/Xcode\ Index\ Templates/JavaIndex

Open the JavaIndex.xcode project in XCode
$ open JavaIndex.xcode

By default, this has classes.jar and ui.jar in it. If they are in red font, that means it cannot find those jars. Probably means that they are pointing to a now missing 1.4.1 VM jar. To fix the red font, click on the file and click Info and use the Choose button to navigate to the jar. For example the Java 1.4.2 VM classes.jar path is:
/System/Library/Frameworks/JavaVM.framework/Versions/1.4.2/Classes/classes.jar

Now right-click on the project icon in the "Groups & Files" pane and select Add/Existing Files... from the menu.

Navigate to /Library/Java/Extensions and add all the jars you want code sense for to the project.





Save and close the JavaIndex project.

Now create index in your preferences using Terminal (while still in the JavaIndex project folder):
$ xcodeindex -destPath /Users/kieran/Library/Application\ Support/Apple/Developer\ Tools/Index\ Templates

Close XCode and relaunch (or log out/in if you encounter problems

Now just use it. Shown here is the jakarta commons lang StringUtils class being "codesensed":




Posted: Wednesday - June 22, 2005 at 05:14 PM        

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