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flight404
Processing Applications with 3rd Party Library
Aug 20th, 2006, 12:14am  
I have been playing around with the Flickr api combined with flickrj and I am having trouble making standalone applications.  Is there some issue I should be aware of (or perhaps a workaround) when dealing with distributed processing app with a third party java lib that isn't written purely for processing (can't be restructured or reorganized)?  I tried adding the .jar to the package contents and modifying the info.plist, but to no avail.  

Is there a way to include these libs inside the application bundle?

Any help would be appreciated.
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fry
Re: Processing Applications with 3rd Party Library
Reply #1 - Aug 26th, 2006, 12:40am  
it should just be included when you export, so long as it's included in the "code" folder of your sketch when you're building the project. is that not working?
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flight404
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Reply #2 - Aug 27th, 2006, 12:50am  
Nope, cant seem to get it to work.  Right now, the .jar lives inside System/Library/Java/Extensions.  I assume it is an issue with classpath.  It shows up in the package contents for the application, but I still get a NoClassDefFoundError in the console.  Does just mean someone needs to make it a proper Processing library for it to work?

Just curious.
-robert
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fry
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Reply #3 - Aug 27th, 2006, 6:48pm  
ah, get it out of /System/Library.. either use "add file to sketch" or drag the jar file into the p5 window, and that'll add it to the project. once it's there, it'll be included properly on export to app or applet.
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flight404
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Reply #4 - Aug 27th, 2006, 8:28pm  
I added the file like you suggested, and removed the copy from the /System/Library, and it works fine as an applet but does not work as an application.  Same error as before.
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Daniel Shiffman
Re: Processing Applications with 3rd Party Library
Reply #5 - Aug 28th, 2006, 5:26am  
Are you on a Mac?  Have you tried showing package contents and then adding the library jar to:

Resources/Java/

That's where 3rd party libraries show up for me. . .?

Dan
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flight404
Re: Processing Applications with 3rd Party Library
Reply #6 - Aug 28th, 2006, 8:26am  
Yeah, tried that.  Didn't work.  And adding the .jar like Fry suggested also puts it in the package contents, but it still gives me the NoClassDefFoundError error.
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Daniel Shiffman
Re: Processing Applications with 3rd Party Library
Reply #7 - Sep 3rd, 2006, 4:46pm  
Hmmm, well as a last resort you could build the project in Eclipse and use fatjar to make an executable jar. . .?

http://fjep.sourceforge.net/

Fun fun fun
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fry
Re: Processing Applications with 3rd Party Library
Reply #8 - Sep 4th, 2006, 4:05pm  
you could also try creating a dummy library for it.. if you make a folder with the same name as the jar file, that should work as a library. so for instance, if the code is in potato.jar, you could make the following folder structure:

(sketchbook) -> potato -> library -> potato.jar

and then "add" it using import library. but other than that, what you describe should be working just fine, so perhaps you should archive the sketch for me and send it over so that i can look into it.
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