Adopting 3.4 mechanisms and APIs
This section describes changes that are required if you are trying to change
your 3.3 plug-in to adopt the 3.4 mechanisms and APIs.
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Quick Fix command moved to Dialogs and Windows context
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IFile.getCharset() caches character set values
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Optimizing your update site for use with p2
In order to enable Quick Fix in dialogs we moved the org.eclipse.jdt.ui.edit.text.java.correction.assist.proposals
command to the Dialogs and Windows context. Clients who registered that command for the Dialogs or
Dialogs and Windows context can now remove their contribution from their plugin.xml
.
The method IFile.getCharset
returns a cached value for the file's encoding.
If the file's encoding has been changed externally, and has not since been synchronized with
the workspace using IResource.refreshLocal
, it may return a stale result.
Clients that call this method should revisit their usage to determine if a cached result
is acceptable. While using a cached encoding has better performance, it could lead
to data corruption if the wrong encoding is used to write a file.
Eclipse 3.4 includes a new provisioning platform called p2. This is a replacement
for the Update Manager technology in previous Eclipse platform releases. While
p2 can load update sites designed for Update Manager, you can optimize your site
for p2 by generating p2 metadata for your update site. This metadata contains
higher fidelity dependency information about the plug-ins and features in your update
site, allowing for more accurate resolution of dependencies at install-time. See
Generating p2 metadata
for more details on how to generate p2 metadata for your update site.
p2 isn't capable of installing from update sites that make use of
install handlers.
When install handlers are encountered, p2 defers installation to the classic Update
Manager. Although end users will still be able to install such features, the end
user experience is less polished and the more advanced download technology
of p2 cannot be exploited. It is recommended that install handlers be avoided
for this reason.