Inter-plugin communication in Eclipse

Question

Is it possible to create Eclipse plugins that auto-discover eachother?

I am developing a set of plugins that need to operate in two primary situations:

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Answer 1

Well, the OSGI Service Registry can accomplish the sharing of pojo based services at runtime, not the plugins themselves. There are several options to facilitate this, such as coding directly to the OSGI API, Declarative Services, Spring DM and iPojo (I am sure there are others as well).

You may want to check out the Whiteboard Pattern as a means of accomplishing a dynamic Observer/Observable style solution.