Description Tom K. 2012-01-25 08:25:15 EST

Build Identifier: I20120103-1230

The plugin org.eclipse.ui.forms has an optional dependency on org.eclipse.ui.
This is great since because of that you can use for e4 rcp clients the most of the forms api without depending on org.eclipse.ui

But... Since the activator (org.eclipse.ui.internal.forms.FormsPlugin) is extedning AbstractUIPlugin the declared optional dependency gets an implicit required dependency.

Proposal: Rewrite org.eclipse.ui.internal.forms.FormsPlugin to implements BundleActivator instead of extending AbstractUIPlugin.


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package org.eclipse.ui.internal.forms;

import org.eclipse.ui.internal.forms.widgets.FormsResources;
import org.osgi.framework.BundleActivator;
import org.osgi.framework.BundleContext;


public class FormsPlugin implements BundleActivator {

    private static BundleContext context;

    static BundleContext getContext() {
        return context;
    }
	
  
    public void start(BundleContext context) throws Exception {
        FormsPlugin.context = context;

    }
    
    public void stop(BundleContext context) throws Exception {         
        FormsResources.shutdown();
        FormsPlugin.context = null;
    }

}
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Reproducible: Always