class not found in Eclipse-built external jar, but found in Netbeans-built one

[Ilya Zee]

I am new to Android development and fairly new to Java altogether. I am trying to develop an Android app that uses some classes from an external JAR. I've run into a strange problem. I managed to reduce the amount of code to "toy" sizes and so now the external JAR is extremely simple: it contains a class that computes a square of a number and returns the result as a String:

package com.mytests.pow;

public class power2 {

private double d;   

public power2()
{
    d = 0.0;
}   

public String stp2(double dd) 
{
    d = dd*dd;
    return String.format("%e", d);
}

}

The code of the app is basically "Hellow world++" based on the 1st app in the Android dev tutorial:

package com.myLuceneTests.namespace;

import android.app.Activity;
import android.os.Bundle;
import android.widget.TextView;

import com.mytests.pow.*;

public class AndroidSimpleSIH_EclipseActivity extends Activity {
/** Called when the activity is first created. */
@Override
public void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {

    power2 pp = new power2();
    String iout = pp.stp2(12.0);

    super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
    TextView tv = new TextView(this);
    tv.setText(iout);
    setContentView(tv);

}
}

Now, here's the problem. I am developing for Android in Eclipse. However, if I also create the JAR in Eclipse by creating a regular Java project with the class, then exporting it into a jar file, and then add this JAR to the build path of the Android project, I get a run time exception that this class cannot be found.

If, on the other hand, I create the JAR in Netbeans and add that JAR to the build path (in Eclipse), all works well.

I actually unzipped both jars to compare contents. It appears that the difference is in .class files but they are not human readable so I can't get any further.

So my q is this: what can I change in the Eclipse export to make the external jar "good"? What is NB doing right that Eclipse is doing wrong? Or do I simply resort to building all my external JARs in NB? Is this a symptom of a badly installed Eclipse? If so, what components should I try to reinstall/fix?

Thanks much!!!