[WhoDat]

I have a standalone RCP Appliation built off of the Eclipse Workbench (v 3.5) which adds some custom views, perspectives, menus and editors to the workbench and is then rebranded.

I also have a separate and independent plugin which provides additional views and actions(commands) to the workbench.

I want to be able to deploy my RCP application and optionally add my plugin's functionality to my RCP by adding my plugin's jar to my RCP applications' plugins directory in the same way that I can add my plugin to Eclipse by adding the plugin's jar to Eclipse's plugins directory.

I have verified that my plugin works correctly when added to Eclipse via Eclipse's plugins directory but my RCP application does not seem to pick up the plugin when it is added to the RCP application's plugins directory.

I would like to know if there is something I am doing wrong or if I am incorrectly assuming that my RCP application's plugins directory will work the same way as Eclipse's.

Thanks in advance for your help.

[dirwalker]

Probably Application do not use standart extension points or clear info obtained from other plugins after start and hide standart menus, toolbars or sothing else

[dirwalker]

Try to see .log file in configuration folder ol logs in application directory - may be plugin deads because not enough required plugins in app folder or it has wrong versions ...

[jsugrue]

Make sure that any dependent plugins are included in the plugins directory where you wish to deploy your own plug-in.