Java: How do I know which jar file to use given a class name?

Question

Given a class, org.eclipse.ui.views.navigator.ResourceNavigator for example, how do I find out which jar file to use? I know it\'s in org.eclipse.ui.ide, but how would I fin

Answer 1

go for Ctrl+Shift+T in Eclipse IDE

Open Type dialog appears where you enter the class name. after that package identifier and jar destination get displayed.

Answer 2

For me this works fine:

find * -type f -name '*.jar' -exec grep -l 'TestClass.class' '{}' \;

Regards

Answer 3

Use this: netbeans plugin

Or jarFinder service

Answer 4

You could also try Jarvana to find the jar files for a particular class.

Answer 5

I vote for CTRL-SHIFT-T because it is already included in Eclipse. I actually dropped jarclassfinder.jar in the plugins dir within the eclipse installation but still couldn't find the plugin in Eclipse GUI