java GEF independ from Eclipse IDE

Question

I have a project, we want the SWT/JFace GEF Eclipse plugin project independ from Eclipse IDE. for example, as a java project, we import the java libarary, and run the java application as normal, could anyone help me to give me an idea. Many thanks!

Answer 1

You have to write an Eclipse Rich Client Platform (RCP), this includes enough of Eclipse to provide the infrastructure needed by all Eclipse plugins.

There are lots of web resources on writing Eclipse RCPs, see here for example.

You cannot run Eclipse plugins in an ordinary Java program.