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Asked: 2026-05-11T10:25:04+00:00

I’m a little confused on the approach to extensions/services in the Eclipse architecture. There

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I’m a little confused on the approach to extensions/services in the Eclipse architecture. There are two options available to a developer:

  1. The use of Eclipse plugin extensions – http://www.eclipse.org/articles/Article-Plug-in-architecture/plugin_architecture.html
  2. The use of declarative services – http://www.eclipse.org/equinox/bundles/

When you would use one over the other and what are the advantages and the disadvantages of each approach? Also going forward which is the preferred approach?

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  1. There’s a pretty good comparison (from 2007, I think) on EclipseZone: A Comparison of Eclipse Extensions and OSGi Services.

    I would follow the conventions of your target platform. So, if you’re writing a plugin for Eclipse 3.4, say, create an Eclipse 3.4 plugin (which will use a MANIFEST.MF for dependencies and a plugin.xml for extensions/extension points – the article you link to is for Eclipse 2.x). You can examine the contents of the plugins directory to confirm this.

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