[platform-core-dev] Custom UI

[Philip Borlin <pborlin@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

We would like to use the non-ui portions of Eclipse (excellent plugin 
architecture, auto-update, help, etc) but build our own gui extension 
points.  I am a bit confused about how to do this.

In the install.ini I see two references - one to the default feature and 
one to the default application.  The default feature seems self 
explanatory - I just create a feature and then point to it as the 
default.  There seems to be plenty of documentation on how to create 
your own default feature.

I don't understand what the default application is pointing to.  I see 
the default application packaged with Eclipse (the IDE) is 
org.eclipse.ui.workbench.  I browsed into the plugin.xml in the 
org.eclipse.ui.workbench plugin but didn't see anything out of the 
ordinary that would seem to define the application.

Are their any articles or documentation that can help me to understand 
what is going on and how to write my own default application?

Looking through the core.boot package I noticed an IPlatformRunnable 
class which looks like it has something to do with booting Eclipse.  Am 
I totally off?

Thanks,
-Phil