[news.eclipse.platform] Re: Optional dependency

[Tom Schindl <tom.schindl@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi,

I'd use Platform.getBundle("y") which will return null if the bundle 
with this name is not found.

Tom

Steen Larsen schrieb:
> My situation is this:
>
> I have made a very important plugin (X), which uses a very unimportant 
> (statistics) plugin (Y).
> I want the X-plugin to work, even if Y-plugin is not present.
>
> In X-plugin I have defined an optional dependency to Y-plugin.
> The X-plugin is calling the Y-plugin in a seperate thread.
>
> This actually works - but not very nice.
> If the Y-plugin is not available I get this error from org.eclipse.ui: 
> Failed to execute runnable (java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: Y-plugin)
> and the thread is terminated.
>
> So... my question is: How can I from X-plugin, check if Y-plugin is 
> available, so that I handle it and omit trying to instantiate Y-plugin?
>
> Regards
> Steen Larsen


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Tom Schindl                                          JFace-Committer
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