can my eclipse rcp and plugins be used by other parties?

Question

Hi all,

If I develop my application using eclipse RCP and my own eclipse plugins, can other people copy and paste my plugins and used in other application?

thanks

Answer 1

The short answer is "yes". RCP applications rely on reusable plugins.

The correct answer is "it depends". It depends on what extensions and extension points you define. Basically, plugins need to "talk" to each other in order to work with each other. When you create a plugin, you define who can talk to it and how.

I recommend the following lecture: http://www.vogella.de/articles/EclipseExtensionPoint/article.html