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[news.eclipse.tools] Re: [plugin.xml] i can't understand the usage of "export"

Jared Burns <jared-eclipse@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in
news:avhv39$4j1$1@xxxxxxxxxxxxx: 

> I hope I'm not spreading false information here, but my understanding
> is that export makes things available automatically to plugins that
> require you. If a plugin lists your plugin as a dependency, it will
> automatically get the exported libraries listed in your plugin.xml -
> it won't have to explicitly require them in *it's* plugin.xml.
> 
> - Jared

my understanding is that if plug-in A require classes from plug-in B then

plugin.XML A must require plugin id B
AND
B must export the classes A wants to use 

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