Re: [platform-core-dev] eclipse plugins framework as standalone

[Jeff McAffer <Jeff_McAffer@xxxxxxxxxx>]

platform-core-dev-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxx wrote on 07/14/2005
01:36:53 AM:
> Jeff McAffer wrote:
> > 
> 
> but will i get extension point support?

If you install the org.eclipse.core.runtime plugin,
yes.

> > Note that Eclipse has a strong component
model and manages component 
> > classpaths dynamically.  So accessing classes contained
in plugins from 
> > the outer program is challenging.
> 
> i plan on having the "outer" program as a core plugin.

I'm not sure that this makes sense.  The outer
program cannot be a plugin if it is the one that starts Eclipse/OSGi.  To
be a plugin means (in part) that an Eclipse classloader loads the the classes.
 But the outer program has to be loaded/running before the notion
of plugin exists so you can't have it both ways.

Jeff