Current deployment scheme from the docs that come with IDEA:
Folders structure
Every plugin should be placed to the IDEA_HOME\plugins folder. It may be in jar or just a folder.
Plugin is in jar:
IDEA_HOME
Plugins
Sample.jar/
com.intellij.....
...
...
META-INF
plugin.xml
Plugin is a folder:
IDEA_HOME
Plugins
Sample
lib
classes
com.intellij.....
...
...
META-INF
plugin.xml
Classes and lib folders are automatically added to the classpath.
Why does the layout of a deployed JAR look different then a deployed directory structure? It would be fantastic to be able to have my third party libs in the lib/ dir inside my JAR file...
anyone else?
* Me Too (Christian Köstlin)
-- DanBachelder - 19 Jun 2002