[dsdp-tm-dev] Question about RSE startup

[Greg Watson <g.watson@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi,

I've been seeing strange behavior from RSE when I call from an  
external plugin, particularly during early initialization of Eclipse.  
Although the RSE UI and core plugins are loaded, they don't seem to  
have been fully configured. So calling  
RSECorePlugin.getTheSystemRegistry().getHosts(), for example,  
sometimes returns nothing, sometimes one host, sometimes multiple hosts.

I think the issue is caused by the use of InitRSEJob to perform RSE  
initialization. I presume that this is to reduce the plugin loading  
overhead on Eclipse, but the problem is that it may be some time  
before this job is actually run, so it is possible to attempt to call  
RSE methods before it is fully initialized.

Do you have any way of checking that RSE is ready, rather than just  
loaded? Alternatively, could isTheSystemRegistryActive() be changed  
so that it reflects the initialized state of RSE?

Thanks,

Greg