Eclipse, Equinox and OSGi

Eclipse has been enormously popular as a tooling platform. With the use of Eclipse as a Rich Client Platform (RCP), Eclipse made a step towards being a runtime platform. Now, with the emergence of Eclipse on the server, Eclipse clearly has leapt into the runtime world. So what makes Eclipse capable of adapting to these different environments – what makes Eclipse tick?

Categories: RCP, Equinox, OSGi

[html] TSS Article
January 2007
by Jeff McAffer and Simon Kaegi