Bug 21806

Summary:	[ExternalTools] Extension point to add external tools
Product:	[Eclipse Project] Platform	Reporter:	Christof Binder <wibni>
Component:	Ant	Assignee:	Simon Arsenault <simon_arsenault>
Status:	RESOLVED DUPLICATE	QA Contact:
Severity:	enhancement
Priority:	P3	Keywords:	ui
Version:	2.0
Target Milestone:	---
Hardware:	All
OS:	All
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Description Christof Binder

2002-07-23 10:04:08 EDT

It would be good if the plug-in 
org.eclipse.ui.externaltools.internal.core.ExternalToolsPlugin would provide an 
extension point to let plug-in developer put their application into the list of 
applications that can be started by the plug-in. In fact that extension point 
would merly update the file externaltools.xml in the 
$WORKSPACE/.metadata/.plugins/org.eclipse.ui.externaltools directory.
Because the $WORKSPACE directory is user-dependant the plug-ins that want to 
update that xml file must do that over the ExternalToolsPlugin that knows where 
the file resides.

Comment 1 Nick Edgar

2002-07-23 10:48:20 EDT

Issue: Would the user be allowed to remove registered external tools?

Would also need to be careful to handle addition and removal of such 
extensions in an existing workspace.

Comment 2 Simon Arsenault

2002-07-25 10:50:04 EDT


*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 20803 ***