Run program.exe from eclipse plugin project

Question

I am writing an eclipse-plugin witch run program.exe. I have added program.exe to plugin jar file. How can a execute this program?

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Answer 1

You can't run the program.exe from inside the plugin jar, so it needs to be extracted. In your plugin use:

Bundle bundle = Platform.getBundle("plugin id");

URL url = FileLocator.find(bundle, new Path("relative path to program"), null);

url = FileLocator.toFileURL(url);

This will find the program in the plugin jar and extract it to a temporary location (done by FileLocator.toFileURL).