Summary
This document introduces the Eclipse 3.0 runtime based on OSGi and details the concepts of plug-ins, extensions as well as various OSGi topics and how the runtime starts and manages plug-ins and how the runtime itself is managed.
Last Modified: 1800 December 11, 2003

The Eclipse 3.0 runtime consists of two main pieces; the execution framework and the extensions registry. The execution engine manages componentsThe execution engine is an implementation of the OSGi framework specification.

The extensions registry is a mechanism for describing relationships between

Note: Throughout this document we use the terms plug-in and bundle interchangeably unless we are refering to the actual Plugin or Bundle classes. Just as in Eclipse 2.1, some plug-ins/bundles may specify extensions or extension-points and some may not.