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Bug 78952

Summary: Uncouple extension point name from the plugin
Product: [Eclipse Project] Platform Reporter: Pascal Rapicault <pascal>
Component: RuntimeAssignee: platform-runtime-inbox <platform-runtime-inbox>
Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE QA Contact:
Severity: enhancement    
Priority: P3 CC: gunnar
Version: 3.0   
Target Milestone: ---   
Hardware: PC   
OS: Windows 2000   
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Description Pascal Rapicault CLA 2004-11-18 09:52:06 EST 
In 3.0 and before, the fully qualified name of the extension-point is derived
from the symbolic name of the bundle containing the plugin.xml.
For example:
 the fully qualified name of the extension-point applications in runtime is
"org.eclipse.core.runtime.applications".

For reasons such as : ease of component refactoring, or replaceability of
implementation of the extension point handler, it could be good to decouple the
extension-point from the namespace and let extension point define their fully
qualified name.
Comment 1 John Arthorne CLA 2006-11-21 14:01:36 EST 
Pascal, hasn't this been done?
Comment 2 Oleg Besedin CLA 2006-11-21 14:08:30 EST 
Yes, this has been done in Eclipse 3.2


*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 112856 ***