Require-Bundle and Import-Package versus feature.xml requires
- by Robert Munteanu
When building an Eclipse plugin (lato sensu) which consists of multiple plugins and one feature, I have two ways of specifying dependencies:
in the plugins themselves, using Require-Bundle and Import-Package in META-INF/MANIFEST.MF;
in the feature.xml file from the feature.
In my understanding, it should be enough to declare the dependencies at the lower level, i.e. in the plugins. Why do we still have the feature.xml requires mechanism?