[news.eclipse.platform] questions re a non-ui plugin

[Derek Morris <dmsubs@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi,

I have a plugin (singleton) that offers various common services to several other
plugins. It does not have a GUI itself. It is also 'standalone' in that it does
not interact with Eclipse directly, except load/saveState() (see below). My
questions:

- Can I get it to start/initialise/loadState() without direct calls from each of
the plugins that use it
- having done that, how do I get it to saveState() when closing Eclipse?

Thanks
--
Derek