enabling user to choose what types get added to the classpath

• Key: IVYDE-24
• Type: Improvement
• Status: Resolved
• Resolution: Fixed
• Priority: Major
• Assignee: Xavier Hanin
• Reporter: Alexander Voss
• Component/s: classpath container

Description

Ivy could potentially be used to manage resources other than .jar files, for example, facelets tag libraries or images that would need to be copied into their own subdirectories in the project. Configurations can be used to achieve this effect but IvyDE by default adds all resources to the classpath and this means that Eclipse will complain: Illegal type of archive for required library. I would suggest that only Java file types should be added to the classpath by default and that this behaviour should be configurable. (I am not sure if this issue is related to http://jira.jayasoft.org/browse/IVYDE-12 so I have created a new JIRA entry.

Comments

[Xavier Hanin]

I've implemented this feature like described, you will now find an "accepted types" field in both Ivy preferences page and Ivy properties on java projects. By default only jars are accepted.