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Santhosh
Santhosh

Reputation: 534

How does eclipse resolve dependencies in a plugin

It is known that any dependent plugin in a plugin gets loaded only when referenced portion (of dependent plugin) gets called up due to lazy loading concept . In that case, I have a doubt how does the dependencies in a plugin gets resolved. Is it via the name check in plugin registry ?

Upvotes: 1

Views: 985

Answers (1)

Chandrayya G K
Chandrayya G K

Reputation: 8849

Platform plug-in loader checks the plug-in dependencies in MANIFEST.MF file. The content of typical MANIFEST.MF file looks like:

Manifest-Version: 1.0
Bundle-ManifestVersion: 2
Bundle-Name: %Bundle-Name
Bundle-SymbolicName: XXX;singleton:=true
Bundle-Version: 1.0.0.qualifier
Bundle-Activator: XXX
Bundle-Vendor: %Bundle-Vendor
Bundle-Localization: plugin
Eclipse-BundleShape: dir
Require-Bundle: Plugin id 1,
 Plugin id 2,
 Plugin id 3,
 Plugin id 4
Bundle-RequiredExecutionEnvironment: JavaSE-1.6
Bundle-ActivationPolicy: lazy

Here Require-Bundle property lists all dependent plug-ins.

Read more about this here Use this plugin to check dependencies.

Upvotes: 1

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