And yeah, a quick google search shows that's about all there is to it.... http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1809401/packaging-one-or-two-plugins-as-a-standalone-rcp-application
On Mon, Jan 11, 2016 at 10:58 AM, Mike Kienenberger <mkien...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Mon, Jan 11, 2016 at 10:49 AM, Mike Kienenberger <mkien...@gmail.com> > 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.
