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Eclipse4/RCP/Compatibility Layer/Overview
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Revision as of 13:59, 7 April 2011 by Unnamed Poltroon (Talk) (New page: The '''Compatibility Layer''' is a set of bundles that have been forked from the Eclipse 3.x stream to allow plug-ins written against the 3.x APIs to run unchanged on an Eclipse 4.x SDK. ...)
The Compatibility Layer is a set of bundles that have been forked from the Eclipse 3.x stream to allow plug-ins written against the 3.x APIs to run unchanged on an Eclipse 4.x SDK.
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The following bundles have been forked from the 3.x stream:
- org.eclipse.ui.workbench
- org.eclipse.platform
- org.eclipse.sdk
The only interesting bundle here is the org.eclipse.ui.workbench bundle as the org.eclipse.platform and org.eclipse.sdk bundles do not actually export any API.
The internal implementations of interfaces like IWorkbenchWindow and IWorkbenchPage from the org.eclipse.ui.workbench bundle have been replaced by new implementations that calls out to Eclipse 4 services and APIs.