Target Provisioners
This extension point is deprecated
Identifier:
org.eclipse.pde.ui.targetProvisioners
Since:
3.3
Description:
This extension point is used to register new target plug-in provisioners. Each plug-in provisioner is listed when the user attempts to add plug-ins from the PDE Target Platform's Preference Page. The selected provisioner is responsible for providing the locations of directories which contain plug-ins the user wants to add to the Target Platform.
Configuration Markup:
<!ELEMENT extension (
provisioner+)>
<!ATTLIST extension
point CDATA #REQUIRED
id CDATA #IMPLIED
name CDATA #IMPLIED
>
<!ELEMENT provisioner (
description?)>
<!ATTLIST provisioner
id CDATA #REQUIRED
name CDATA #REQUIRED
icon CDATA #IMPLIED
class CDATA #REQUIRED
>
-
id - a unique identifier of the provisioner
-
name - human readable name of the provisioner
-
icon - a relative path of an icon that will be used to visually
represent the provisioner.
-
class - a class that provides a wizard for the user to add plug-ins through the provisioner. The value of this attribute is the fully qualified name of the Java class that implements
org.eclipse.pde.ui.IProvisionerWizard.
<!ELEMENT description (#PCDATA)>
human-readable description of the provisioner
Examples:
The following is an example of the extension point:
<extension
point=
"org.eclipse.pde.ui.provisioners"
>
<provisioner
class=
"org.eclipse.pde.internal.ui.wizards.provisioner.FileSystemProvisionerWizard"
id=
"org.eclipse.pde.ui.directory"
name=
"%provisioner.file.name"
>
<description>
%provisioner.file.description
</description>
</provisioner>
</extension>
Supplied Implementation:
PDE supplies a File System provisioner extension to add plug-ins from the file system, and an update site provisioner to add plug-ins from repositories.
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