[news.eclipse.tools] Re: TP4/035: Follow-up question re: children of roo

[Randy_Giffen@xxxxxxx]

There are several places within the workbench where we are presenting 
plugin contributions in the order we read them from the plugin registry. 
This is a problem because the order is non deterministic.  There is work 
currently being done to address this problem throughout the workbench. One 
of the features of the Eclipse platform is it's open and extensible 
nature. One implication of this is that developers can not have fine 
grained control over the exact ordering of their contributions as other 
ISV's may be contributing to the same extension point. The fact that some 
contributions currently appear to be ordered as they are declared in their 
plugin does not mean that you should expect or count on this behavior. 


ruthdaly@xxxxxxxxxx (Ruth Daly) wrote:

>The UCD person's next question was whether we have control
>over the order of elements under the root element. That is,
>even if the order of the root element is determined by
>the plugin load order, do we have control over the children 
>under that root element? If I'm not mistaken, assuming that
>the children are all declared in the same plugin, then the
>order of the children, in the list, will be determined by 
>the order that they are declared in; i.e., the order of 
>the child contributions in the plugin.xml file. Is that 
>correct?