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

"Joseph Khalil" <joseph_khalil@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in
news:avja00$quo$1@xxxxxxxxxxxxx: 

> a.. export - specifies whether the dependent plug-in classes are made
> visible (are (re)exported) to users of this plug-in. By default,
> dependent classes are not exported (are not made visible)
> 
> but i can't understand it

let's have 3 plugins:
UI/Resources/Runtime

UI need classes from Resource and Runtime...
Resource requires Runtime
Runtime exports everything

If resource does not re-export what runtime exported, UI must also require 
Runtime in order to use Runtime classes.

-- 
Christophe Elek
Eclipse Project
http://www.eclipse.org