Can I programmatically use an Eclipse plugin in my java code (so that it is independent from eclipse)?
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Can I programmatically use an Eclipse plugin in my java code (so that it is independent from eclipse)?
Yes you can if:
The plugin you want to use doesn’t have any external dependencies => it’s just a library plugin
The plugin you want to use and ALL it’s dependencies are in your classpath
No in all other cases. Because many plugins use at least the core concepts of OSGI/Equinox (have an activator) it will be quite hard to use them in a standalone java app.
For example, SWT can be used outside eclipse.