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Is the Workbench guaranteed to be available when a plugin with dependency on org.eclipse.ui starts? [message #1131109]

Thu, 10 October 2013 07:44

Felix Dorner

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Registered: March 2012

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Hi,

can a bundle that depends on org.eclipse.ui call PlatformUI.getWorkbench
in its activator start method, Or is there a chance that the workbench
isn't available yet at that point in time?

Thanks,
Felix

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Re: Is the Workbench guaranteed to be available when a plugin with dependency on org.eclipse.ui star [message #1134499 is a reply to message #1131109]

Sat, 12 October 2013 14:46

Thorsten Schlathölter

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Registered: February 2012
Location: Düsseldorf

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Hi Felix,
you cannot rely on the workbench being available in the activator of a plugin that depends on org.eclipse.ui. There is no activator on org.eclipse.ui that would create the workbench. The workbench must be created by a call to PlatformUI.createAndRunWorkbench() and this method is typically called from IApplication.start(). At that point in time other bundles might already have been started.

HTH
Thorsten

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