| Eclipse as a project loader [message #50836] |
Tue, 27 May 2003 20:36  |
Eclipse User |
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Hello,
I am interested in using the Eclipse plugin loading framework for my
project. However I do not wish to require any SWT/UI stuff.
What would really make my day is to only include one jar from Eclipse (
like boot.jar ), and be able to use it to be a bootstrap plugin loader
for my project. ( For some people this will mean loading the Eclipse
workbench and everything else including SWT. )
I have so far found some references to being able to do this by
extending org.eclipse.core.runtime.applications , however I cannot seem
to find this in the API.
The best page of info has so far been:
http://dev.eclipse.org/viewcvs/index.cgi/~checkout~/org.ecli pse.platform.doc.user/tasks/running_eclipse.htm
The goal is to use Eclipse as a central loader for a number of currently
unrelated projects, then, as we integrate them, each would be able to
specify what dependcies it has and they would be loaded.
Example:
I start by running a CLI only program to do some analysis. Then I
invoke a chart viewing program to plot the data I just generated. To
get more information about my samples I load in a database query module.
Each of these three modules ( analysis, database, info ) are seperate
plugins, and each can exist with the other. Ideally it could be made to
go to the web and get a plugin you didn't have as well.
I am currently looking at NetBeans as well for this purpose, but Eclipse
is better written with more documentation. And while I ham learning to
like SWT, other people are never going to move from Swing, so supporting
both ( obviously not in the same window ) would be very nice.
Any help at all would be much appreciated.
Rowan Christmas
Institute for Systems Biology
xmas@systemsbiology.org
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| Re: Eclipse as a project loader [message #57006 is a reply to message #55293] |
Fri, 30 May 2003 19:04  |
| Eclipse User |
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I was unable to find anything useful, which is why I started my own
thread. If you can direct me to anything ( like a date even ) that
would be swell.
Bob Foster wrote:
> Good, but search the newsgroup first. This topic was very recently discussed
> and I saw several lists of what you need to do/have to strip Eclipse down.
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> Bob
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> "Rowan Christmas" <xmas@systemsbiology.org> wrote in message
> news:bb5lk0$f5q$1@rogue.oti.com...
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>>So I started a new Thread to hopefully generate more interest ;) It
>>seems like not that many people are using eclipse as a stand-alone
>>project launcher in general.
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>>If I can get my project to load easily I plan on submitting some new
>>documentation that will hopefully simplify this whole process.
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>>Developer wrote:
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>>>Rowan Christmas wrote:
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>>>>Do you know which set of plugins would be the absolute minimum set
>>>>required to run?
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>>>No, but you need a platform runtime only, which
>>>"Defines the extension point and plug-in model. It dynamically discovers
>>>plug-ins and maintains information in a platform registry. Plug-ins are
>>>started up when required according to user operation of the platform."
>>>I might guess this icludes only org.eclipse.core.* and maybe platform
>>>launcher.
>>>I think you can get more info at
>>>http://www.eclipse.org/platform/index.html. (goto CVS).
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