[news.eclipse.platform.rcp] Re: IStartup / org.eclipse.ui.startup - not

[Paul Webster <pwebster@xxxxxxxxxx>]

dave irving wrote:
> Hi -
> I've implemented an IStartup, and registered it under the 
> org.eclipse.ui.startup extension in my plugin.
> However, for some reason my IStartup's earlyStartup() is (definitely) 
> not being invoked.
>
> My plugin.xml has this entry:
>
> <plugin>
>   <extension
>         point="org.eclipse.ui.startup">
>      <startup class="com.whatever.EarlyStartup"/>
>   </extension>
>   ...
> </plugin>
>
> I don't have any lazy start stuff in the MANIFEST.MF.

All plugins that have a plugin.xml must (for some value of *must*) have 
both the lazy start header set to true and singleton:=true like:
Bundle-SymbolicName: z.ex.mail; singleton:=true
Eclipse-LazyStart: true

or eclipse won't read the plugin.xml

Later,
PW