[news.eclipse.platform] Re: Products extension point vs product configur

[Andrew Niefer <aniefer@xxxxxxxxxx>]

You can think of the difference between the two as runtime vs build. 
The extension point is a runtime thing to actually run the product.  The 
.product config file has all the info needed to actually build/export a 
product.

-Andrew

Paul Webster wrote:
> the products extension point is what makes eclipse run.
>
> The product configuration file is (AFAIK) a PDE config file that 
> collects a lot of the standard things you do for a product (product id, 
> branding, etc) into one place.
>
> ex: when you create a product config file with a product ID that points 
> to an application, eclipse also updates the plugin.xml with the product 
> extension.
>
> Later,
> PW