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 *   Software Engineering
 *   Department of Computer Science
 *   Technische Universitiät Darmstadt 
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package de.tud.cs.st.vespucci.versioning;

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

/**
 * The activator class controls the plug-in life cycle
 * 
 * @author Dominic Scheurer
 */
public class Activator extends AbstractUIPlugin {

	/**
	 * ID of the Vespucci versioning plugin.
	 */
	public static final String PLUGIN_ID = "de.tud.cs.st.vespucci.versioning"; //$NON-NLS-1$

	/**
	 * Shared instance of this class.
	 */
	private static Activator plugin;

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

	/*
	 * (non-Javadoc)
	 * @see org.eclipse.ui.plugin.AbstractUIPlugin#stop(org.osgi.framework.BundleContext)
	 */
	public void stop(BundleContext context) throws Exception {
		plugin = null;
		super.stop(context);
	}

	/**
	 * 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 imageDescriptorFromPlugin(PLUGIN_ID, path);
	}
}