Patch a plugin with a single class?

Question

This is my situation: We have a third party feature in our Eclipse environment. The feature contains several plugins. The plugin contains a bunch of classes. One of the clas

Answer 1

So this means I have a single class file that I want to be loaded instead of a class in a plugin, is this at all possible?

Your first sentence is the answer. You can use a fragment, but that requires modifying the manifest in the plugin. Otherwise, Eclipse would have no idea which class to load.

My suggestion is that you write IBM with all of this information, including the patch. IBM should be able to release a maintenance fix which would solve your problem.

In the mean time, you could pursue the fragment option, which would require you to unpack the jar, add your fragment, modify the manifest, and repackage the jar. Whether or not this is legal is beyond my ability to determine.