Tuesday, October 11, 2005

Breaking up of platforn for better OSGi separation

Jeff McAffer explains how will be split into more plugins to better support OSGI. This will be done without breaking existing code.

org.eclipse.osgi
org.eclipse.core.common - some common base support classes like IStatus, etc. We'll look to take into account the JFace uses here as well as other. This will NOT be a dumping ground.
org.eclipse.equinox.registry - the extension registry mechanism
org.eclipse.core.jobs - job support
org.eclipse.core.preferences - preferneces support
org.eclipse.core.contenttypes - content types
org.eclipse.core.runtime - the original runtime layer with things like Platform, Plugin, ...

It will require and reexport all of the above plugins. Make this optional if possible.

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