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Asked: 2026-05-27T11:14:21+00:00

Quick disclaimer: I am running Eclipse 3.5 and I cannot upgrade to a more

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Quick disclaimer: I am running Eclipse 3.5 and I cannot upgrade to a more recent version. I really do not want anyone to construe this as disrespectful, but please do not ask me why.

I would like to know what is the best (and kosher) way to share a single .aj aspect file among multiple eclipse plug-ins that comprise a single stand-alone RCP application.

I have seen a number of examples where a single plug-in contains an .aj aspect file in one of its packages. But I am guessing that there has to be a better way than for each plug-in project to bear its own identical .aj copy.

Isn’t there a way to “centralize” the .aj file and then reference it from each plug-in project?

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  1. Editorial Team

    If I understand correctly, you want to have an aspect that is applied in several bundles?

    It should work simply packaging that aspect in a bundle, and the using Require-Bundle from all the bundles that need it (Import-Package should work as well). If you need more fine-grained control, you can use apply-aspects:=true or false, for example adding this in your META-INF/MANIFEST.MF :

     Import-Package: 
  com.ibm.icu.text;apply-aspects:=false;org.eclipse.swt.graphics;apply-aspects:=false,
  scala.tools.eclipse.contribution.weaving.jdt;apply-aspects:=false

    Make sure you list your aspects in META-INF/aop.xml or else they won’t be executed.

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