View source for FAQ How do I find out whether the Eclipse Platform is running?

If you have a library of code that can be used within both the Eclipse 
Platform and a stand-alone application, you may need to find out 
programmatically whether the Eclipse Platform is running.  In Eclipse 3.0, this is accomplished by calling
<tt>Platform.isRunning</tt>.  In 2.1, call <tt>BootLoader.isRunning</tt>.
You will  need  to set up the classpath of your stand-alone application 
to make sure that the boot or runtime plug-in&#146;s library 
is reachable. Alternatively, you can reference the necessary class via reflection.




You can find out whether an Ant script is running from within Eclipse by querying the
state of the variable <tt>eclipse.running</tt>.  You can use this information to specify
targets that are built only when Ant is invoked from within Eclipse:
<pre>
   &lt;target name=&quot;properties&quot; if=&quot;eclipse.running&quot;/&gt;
</pre>






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