[news.eclipse.platform] Re: getService() without the UI?!

[Tom Schindl <tom.schindl@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi,

If you want to do things at the lower level I'd suggest to use OSGi
Declarative Services.

If you need an example how to e.g. expose a EMF-Model as a Declarative
Service you can take a look the example application [1] I'm writing for
my EclipseCon [2] talk.

Tom

[1]http://github.com/tomsontom/emf-databinding-example/tree/master
[2]Mixing Eclipse Technologies to create Enterprise Ready
Database-RCP-Frontends - http://www.eclipsecon.org/2009/sessions?id=446



Jan Kohnert schrieb:
> Hello,
> 
> currently I'm using PlatformUI.getWorkbench().getService() a lot, using
> the extensionpoint "org.eclipse.ui.services".
> 
> In general itïs working fine. But it suffers a bit from its bondage to
> the UI. Why is something so general like a servicelocator bound to the
> UI anyway? Every Plugin I create that uses this servicelocator has to
> have "org.eclipse.ui" as a dependency. Even if it is a model plugin
> (EMF) thats only dependencie to the UI would be the servicelocator.
> 
> Would'nt it be nice to have a UI-less servicelocator?
> Aspecially since currently it is not possible to use services as long
> the workbench has not been started. Likewise when opening a login dialog
> within Application.start() and the connection to a database is
> controlled by a ConnectionService... :)
> 
> Jan Kohnert
> 
> 
> 


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