On Mon, Jan 11, 2016 at 10:49 AM, Mike Kienenberger <[email protected]> wrote: > ... I'm fairly certain that you can write code that would be > mostly interchangeable between a standalone app and a plugin. > However, I haven't done any specific plug-in work to the traditional > eclipse IDE, but the architecture is identical, and I would imagine > it's possible.
I guess I should probably say it's not only possible, but it's probably easy. A quick review of my code shows that I primarily just provided sets of actions, perspectives, and views to the eclipse workbench API. I imagine that'e exactly the same thing that a plug-in would do. A standalone app based on a plug-in would likely just provide the startup glue code, set the default perspective to the plugin perspective, create a menu, etc. Again, though, this is all based on work I did five years ago, so take it with a grain of salt.
