RE: [platform-swt-dev] A question about stand-alone SWT applicati ons

["Nick Edgar" <Nick_Edgar@xxxxxxxxxx>]

The refactoring of the UI plugins was done in the 2.1 stream.  We have not 
yet started 2.2.

Previously in 1.0 and 2.0, JFace was part of the UI plugin 
(org.eclipse.ui).  In 2.1, it was broken out into its own plugin 
(org.eclipse.jface).
The text components were also separated out (org.eclipse.jface.text, 
org.eclipse.text, org.eclipse.editors, and 
org.eclipse.workbench.texteditor).
For more details of the structure, see the Platform-UI and Platform-Text 
team pages under "Development Resources".

org.eclipse.jface depends on org.eclipse.swt and org.eclipse.core.runtime. 
 The latter is for various "utility" classes like IProgressMonitor and 
IStatus.
It is not strongly tied to the Eclipse runtime infrastructure (i.e. the 
plugin story).

If you want to write standalone apps using SWT and JFace, you can do so, 
but you will need to copy the referenced classes in 
org.eclipse.core.runtime into their own jar.  You could also include the 
whole org.eclipse.core.runtime jar, but this would be overkill.

Nick






Dave Orme <DaveO@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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> > .....\plugins\org.eclipse.runtime_2.1.0\runtime.jar 
> 
> > is *not* even available in the eclipse-rc3b release. 
> > (that particular directory does not exist). Now 
> > I am really confused. 
> 
> Often what happens is the jar files are refactored to produce 
> better organization.  Of course this means that documentation 
> can lag the implementation. 
> 
> I'm not sure if for standalone JFace programming you need 
> more than Jface.jar and swt.jar.  You could certainly try it 
> and see.  Perhaps someone else can chime in with the 
> definitive answer.  I'm pretty sure this is covered on the 
> Eclipse Wiki or in an FAQ somewhere. 
Actually, the Wiki and FAQ are probably lagging reality here.  What's 
happened is that the docs you have seen are correct through Eclipse 2.1. 
However, in Eclipse 2.2, there has been an effort to remove the 
dependencies between JFace and the other JARs.  Since I haven't moved to 
the 2.2 stream yet, I don't know what the new requirements are.  You'll 
probably get a much faster answer on e.tools than here since most of us 
are really SWT people here, not JFace.
Good luck. 

Dave