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A fragment is used to replace or extend the functionality of an existing plug-in. A common use for fragments is to put environment (operating system, architecture, etc.) specific code into fragments.

A fragment is used to replace or extend the functionality of an existing plug-in. A common use for fragments is to put environment (operating system, architecture, etc.) specific code into fragments. Depending on the environment the plug-in is installed in the base plug-in code along with the correct fragment can be installed. Fragments are also ideal for shipping features like language or maintenance packs that typically trail the initial products for a few months.

When a fragment is detected by the platform and its parent plug-in is found, the fragment's libraries, extensions and extension points are "merged" with those of the parent plug-in.

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Are the contents of a fragment visible outside the host plugin?

I have never worked with plug-in fragments before. I thought that by creating a new class within a fragment and exporting the package that contains it in the fragment's manifest, I'd be able to access that class from another plug-in that already has…
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Is there an equivalent to BundleActivator for Eclipse fragment projects?

I am building an Eclipse plug-in that provides a set of core features in the regular plug-in project. The optional features I am providing via fragment projects. But I need the fragments to register themselves with the main plug-in on start-up. I…
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Java 7u55 Eclipse System Fragment Classloader

In previous versions of Java I was able to use a fragment that had a host of system-bundle in order to provide classes to the boot classloader. In my particular case this was to support using Jacorb in Eclipse. This all worked fine prior to Java…
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Eclipse RCP: how to export launch configuration plugins?

Note: This is not a duplicate of any question regarding problems with product export: I can already export successfully both within gui and with headless pde build. I am developing a RCP application on eclipse Indigo (3.7), which is in the final…
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Where should I put testcode for an Eclipse plugin fragment?

There are several posts I found while searching for best practice of where to put test code for an Eclipse plugin. Most of them suggest fragments like this I have a plugin single sourced and it has two fragments, one for RCP and one for RAP. Now if…
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Eclipse PDE UI feature export with two fragments for same os, different arch

Hoping to have some Eclipse PDE guru's weigh in here in a problem I'm having trouble solving. I am attempting export (via PDE UI) a feature that has two fragments included where both fragments target the same os (e.g., Linux) but have different…
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Where to put test classes?

When testing Eclipse RCP plugins, it is good practice to have all test classes and resources live in a dedicated (test) fragment. This way all classes in the host plugin can be accessed, no matter if those packages are actually exported or not. But…
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Class loading when extending an Eclipse plugin with a fragment project does not work

I am trying to extend a third-party Eclipse plug-in by using a fragment project. The major reason is that the third party plug-in contains classes having the default (package) modifier and I need to extend them. Thus, my extensions class must be…
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Creating a popup menu within a fragment.e4xmi for an editor at extension point org.eclipse.ui.editors

I am creating a custom editor via the extension point org.eclipse.ui.editors. This works all well. Let's say this is given the id=my.custom.editor.id Now, I would like to define a popup menu for my editor within my fragment.e4xmi. I do not seem to…
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Eclipse RCP: implement feature separated from other code

Let's say we want to extend someone elses (open-source) Eclipse 4 RCP application with our own eclipse-feature. Obviously, this feature cannot be stored together with the other code, but must reside in its own git repository. Unfortunately, the…
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How to morph a fragment into a plug-in?

I need to turn Eclipse fragments into plug-ins. Haven't found any wizard to support this. So I've created a plugin.xml and edited the MANIFEST.MF to look exactly like a plug-in project does. Still, Eclipse somehow detects it's not a plug-in: for…
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Use fragment to replace resource file in Eclipse plugin

I have an Eclipse plugin containing a resource file (resource.xml) which is loaded by the source code. This plugin is used in two applications, one base and one derivative, and I want to use a different resource.xml file in the derivative…
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Eclipse fragment not resoving classes in parent plugin

Running in Linux on Eclipse Mars.2. I am using a targetplatform so that the plugins are mostly from Kepler.2, due to one of my plugins being 3rd party from that era. I have a fragment that will not compile in Eclipse because lots of classes do not…
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Accessing plugins from fragments and vise versa

I'm trying to add a fragment to a plugin in order to have information added to the plugin without touching the latter. However, the problem I experienced is that I can access resources that are in the plugin from the fragment but not the other way…
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Eclipse product does not recognize fragment (uncompressed)

I have an eclipse PRODUCT that has plugins and fragments: Plugin A (PRODUCT MAIN Plugin) Exported Plugins (eclipse DROPINS folder): Plugin B (Dependency of Plugin A) Fragment A (HOST=Plugin B) - UNCOMPRESSED=resources Fragment B (HOST=Plugin B) …
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