[news.eclipse.technology.equinox] Re: Work items posted

["Kevin" <supreme_java_guru_1@xxxxxxxxx>]

Ok, I am on my way. I have all the outer nodes being processed (in code). I
am lost though, how the heck do I get my code to run? I see it compiles fine
(I think). Can I do something as simple as sticking my compiled class into
my existing Eclipse, restart it and see if it works? Also, I am used to the
old System.out.println() stuff to verify something is working. Is there a
way to run eclipse with a console so I can see that? Or is there a better
way to test out my results? I haven't a lot of time right now to read
in-depth on how to use PDE and such.

Another question, how is it that the core of the engine revolves around
plugin.xml  and such, yet it is a plugin that actually parses it? In my own
engine, I have the parsing, the engine, repository, etc all as part of the
core classes that are not plugins. So how is eclipse able to load the plugin
parsing plugin without first being able to parse the plugin the parser
belongs to? Is this paradoxical? Which came first, the egg or the chicken?

Thanks.