Eclipse Plug-in Development Beginner's Guide - Second Edition

Registering a service programmatically

To register a service, an instance of the implementation class needs to be created and registered with the framework. Interactions with the framework are performed with a BundleContext—typically provided in the BundleActivator.start method and stored for later use, or resolved dynamically from FrameworkUtil.getBundle().getBundleContext().

Creating an activator

A bundle's activator is a class that is instantiated and coupled to the lifetime of the bundle. When a bundle is started, if a manifest entry Bundle-Activator exists, then the corresponding class is instantiated. As long as it implements the BundleActivator interface, the start method will be called. This method is passed an instance of BundleContext ...