[news.eclipse.tools] Launching Java VMs - com.ibm.jdt.launching

[deboer@xxxxxxxxxx (Tim deBoer)]

I was hoping to use same mechanism the Java plugin uses to launch my own
Java processes in a user supplied/configured VM. (in this case, we're
launching a Java server) I've taken a look at the com.ibm.jdt.launching
plugin, but it doesn't seem to provide the support we need.

1) Are there plans to add any of the following support to this API:
   a) More configurability. (for instance, providing a name for the
created process)
   b) Return launch information other than just the current run/fail,
found by whether a valid process is returned or not. (for instance, an
IStatus could be returned as well)
   c) Launch in "silent" mode, so that we can launch a process within our
own wizards and not have other dialogs appear in the case of an error. The
previous function would still allow us to provide the error information to
the user.

2) Failing this, is there any way to reuse the functionality (i.e. find
out what JDKs are installed and use them to launch a Java class) or do we
have to provide our own mechanism for doing this?