Activator.java

package net.sf.etl.core;

import org.eclipse.jface.resource.ImageDescriptor;
import org.eclipse.ui.plugin.AbstractUIPlugin;
import org.osgi.framework.BundleContext;

/**
 * The main plugin class. Note that this plugin configures new 
 * term parser factory class that uses WST ICatalog for entity 
 * resolution.
 * 
 * Eclipse plugins should access parser plugin through this plugin
 * rather than directly. 
 */
public class Activator extends AbstractUIPlugin {

	/** The shared instance. */
	private static Activator plugin;
	
	/**
	 * The constructor.
	 */
	public Activator() {
		plugin = this;
	}

	/**
	 * @see org.eclipse.ui.plugin.AbstractUIPlugin#start(org.osgi.framework.BundleContext)
	 */
	public void start(BundleContext context) throws Exception {
		super.start(context);
	}

	/**
	 * This method is called when the plug-in is stopped
	 */
	public void stop(BundleContext context) throws Exception {
		super.stop(context);
		plugin = null;
	}

	/**
	 * Returns the shared instance.
	 *
	 * @return the shared instance.
	 */
	public static Activator getDefault() {
		return plugin;
	}

	/**
	 * Returns an image descriptor for the image file at the given
	 * plug-in relative path.
	 *
	 * @param path the path
	 * @return the image descriptor
	 */
	public static ImageDescriptor getImageDescriptor(String path) {
		return AbstractUIPlugin.imageDescriptorFromPlugin("net.sf.etl.core", path);
	}
}