eclipse_customization.ini file and what are differences between application and product

Question

When developing an eclipse plugin, we are using a file named plugin_customization.ini

I wonder where I can find detailed information about which setting can be set with help of this file?

Another question is when product branding and defining an extension point in plugin.xml file we can define the extension point by the tag product or by the tag provider! What are differences! And if I am using <provider> like this

<extension point="org.eclipse.core.runtime.products">        
     <provider> 
       <run class="Test"/> 
     </provider> 
</extension>

can I do product branding?

Thanks for help

Answer 1

This article provides some information about using the plugin_customization.ini file.

To your other question: A provider defines an installed product. This makes it a proxy for the extension of an installed product. You can do some research on the org.eclipse.core.runtime.IProductProvider interface to get more information on this.