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

[jko@xxxxxxxxxxx ( Jan Kohnert)]

Tom,

which of your chared plugins contains the declarative service example?

Thanks,
Jan

Tom Schindl wrote:

> 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 itï¿œs 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