Browser Support

org.eclipse.ui.browserSupport

3.1

This extension point is used to contribute workbench browser support. The support is responsible for opening URLs for all the Eclipse plug-ins. Workbench provides a very rudimentary implementation with a more complete implementation available as an optional RCP plug-in.

Contributions that are meant to be shipped with the product as the standard support should be marked as default. This way, it is possible to override the support with another contribution that is not marked as default. Note however that only one support can be active at any point in time. In case of multiple default and/or non-default contributions, the result is non-deterministic.

<!ELEMENT extension (support+)>

<!ATTLIST extension

point CDATA #REQUIRED

id    CDATA #IMPLIED

name  CDATA #IMPLIED>


<!ELEMENT support EMPTY>

<!ATTLIST support

class   CDATA #REQUIRED

default (true | false) "false">


The following is an example of a browser support contribution:
   

<extension point=

"org.eclipse.ui.browserSupport"

>

<support default=

"true"

class=

"com.example.xyz.MyBrowserSupport"

>

</support>

</extension>

The contributors are expected to provide a class that extends org.eclipse.ui.browser.AbstractWorkbenchBrowserSupport.

The workbench provides a simple implementation of the browser support that is used when no contributions are found in the registry.