[pde-dev] re-using the eclipse plugin framework

[Emil Ivov <emil_ivov@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hello all,

Hope this is the right forum for this kind of questions.

I'm very much impressed by the eclipse plugin framework. Find it very 
well designed and extensible. I would therefore like to reuse it in 
another, completely different project. Here are my questions:

1) Is it possible to extract and completely reuse existing code. In 
other words: Can I just get the code that does the plugin management and 
use it as an independent module in a different environment?

2) Would it be possible to reuse the Eclipse PDE for building plugins 
for that other project?

3) If 1) is not feasible - would it make sense to implement a standalone 
plugin framework that complies with the Eclipse Plug-in framework so 
that PDE tools can be reused?

Thanks
Emil