E4 lifeCycleURI property for fragment plugin

Question

I am new to Eclipse 4. I am trying to refactor existing application and move some domain related UI and code to fragment plugin. In existing application I have used lifeCycleURI property of plugin to link java class to register some services at IEclipseContext. But fragment tag at plugin.xml do not recognizes 'property name="lifeCycleURI"'.

How can I register life cycle manager code for fragment plugin?

Answer 1

Only the org.eclipse.core.runtime.products extension supports the life cycle class, you can't define life cycles for plugins or fragments.

If you want to define OSGi services you can do that with a Component Definition. OSGi services are automatically added to the IEclipseContext.

You can also use a ContextFunction to lazily add to the context. see here

You can also add to the context using an Addon