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Tue, 02 March 2010 04:41

Eclipse User

I got to know the significance of buddy policy when i had a class loader issue with a (spring,hessian,weblogic) kind of plugins shared across plugins...

That too in an application in which functionalities are contributed by many diffrent teams by contributing different set of plugins...

My doubt is why doesn't the same issue come up with SWT, JFace, gef,gmf, *.ui plugins which are also shared????

Re: Buddy policy doubt [message #517855 is a reply to message #517823]

Tue, 02 March 2010 06:03

Eclipse User

Hi

The main reason why buddy loading needed is classloaders for each plugin in RCP, not the distributed development teams. Issue is in plugin engine architecture itself. If you dont use plugins - you dont need buddy loading

Regards, Michael

Re: Buddy policy doubt [message #517860 is a reply to message #517855]

Tue, 02 March 2010 06:24

Eclipse User

Thanks Michael..

i know the need for buddy policy and working of plugins and class loaders in plugin....

my doubt is why in certain cases it is needed and certain it is not needed..

Quote:

I got to know the significance of buddy policy when i had a class loader issue with a (spring,hessian,weblogic) kind of plugins shared across plugins...

That too in an application in which functionalities are contributed by many different teams by contributing different set of plugins...

My doubt is why doesn't the same issue come up with SWT, JFace, gef,gmf, *.ui plugins which are also shared????

Re: Buddy policy doubt [message #517928 is a reply to message #517860]

Tue, 02 March 2010 09:44

Eclipse User

The main use case of buddy loading is integrate into eclipse application third party libs that need classes from other plugins and you dont know all dependencies graph/

For example, hibernate use domain classes placed in multiple plugins and depedencies cannot be described at hibernate inegration time (this activity occurs on construction concrete application) or you want place spring beans on plubins

Eclipse has extension points as a mechanism of delegating implementations, but third party pure java libs dont use it.

Regards, Michael

Re: Buddy policy doubt [message #518002 is a reply to message #517928]

Tue, 02 March 2010 12:57

Eclipse User

Thanks Michael...

I got it now....

where ever there is context class loading buddy policy is needed...

hybernate,spring,weblogic,hessian need loading of classes which may be in other plugins....

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