[news.eclipse.platform.rcp] Re: Initially invisible view

[Paul Webster <pwebster@xxxxxxxxxx>]

How dynamic is your user authentication?  The Splash screen in startup 
was modified a few releases ago to allow a user login to occur.

Projects like http://eclipse-jaas.sourceforge.net/ allow plugins (that 
contains the authorized perspective) to deny loading so that they can't 
be accessed if not authorized.

In 3.4 enhancements were added to the activity framework that can 
totally remove definitions (like a perspective) from the runtime 
registry using an enabledWhen clause.  That can be coupled with an 
ISourceProvider (for the user login) to remove a view if the user is not 
authorized.

PW

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