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Bug 80148

Summary:	[plan item] Dynamic plug-ins
Product:	[Eclipse Project] Platform	Reporter:	Jim des Rivieres <jeem>
Component:	Runtime	Assignee:	platform-runtime-inbox <platform-runtime-inbox>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED	QA Contact:
Severity:	enhancement
Priority:	P4	Keywords:	plan
Version:	3.0
Target Milestone:	3.1
Hardware:	All
OS:	All
Whiteboard:

Description Jim des Rivieres

2004-12-03 14:35:14 EST

In Eclipse 3.0 it became possible to install and remove plug-ins without 
restarting the system. In practice this is a cooperative effort requiring the 
rest of the plug-ins in the system to respond correctly to the changes. Work 
will be done to increase the runtime support for making plug-ins dynamic-
aware, including annotating plug-ins with their dynamic characteristics, 
changing the registry data structure to use light-weight handles, and provide 
support for tracking key objects. Other RCP plug-ins will be updated to use 
these mechanisms. Also, develop reusable coding structures and guidelines for 
writing dynamic-aware plug-ins. [Platform Core; Platform UI; Platform Text; 
Update; Help]

Comment 1 Pascal Rapicault

2005-05-11 11:16:57 EDT

- The registry API has been adapted to better support dynamic scenarios, and is
now working in term of handles which also solve some memory usage problem.
- Helpers have been introduced, see package org.eclipse.core.runtime.dynamichelpers

The markup for dynamic characteristics has been defined but is not used (see bug
#79818).