RE: [eclipse-dev] Fragments and extensions

["Walter Harley" <wharley@xxxxxxx>]

Dejan Glozic wrote:
> Why are you using fragments? Fragments were originally design for
delivering NL data, 
> and also for supplying platform-specific code related to the
referenced plug-in. 

Thanks for the response!

In this case, the functionality to be delivered (annotation processing)
is an enhancement to Java compilation, but can only run in a 1.5 VM.  So
it is precisely a platform specificity issue.  

It is certainly an option to deliver the functionality as a full plugin
rather than a fragment; or, to expose the necessary extension point from
o.e.jdt.core itself rather than from "fragment A".  In fact, I'm not
even certain yet which option is the most architecturally appropriate.
But I'd at least like to know how to do it with fragments, if it is
possible.