Eclipse RCP how to exchange data stored in objects??

[Lars Olson]

Hi!

I'm quite new when it comes to RCP development after developing mostly plain old Java previously and I have run into a problem :-)

I have tried to solve this the POJO way, creating an object to store some values, in this case a particular type of Bundles.

The problem is that I can not access this object from my view classes, because they do not seem to carry a reference to the Activator class(?) I believe I have to do this in the Activator class, because the bundlelistener has to be registered with the context.

In my Activator class I have created an object servicesList containing a vector of Bundles

   
public class Activator extends AbstractUIPlugin implements BundleListener {

	// The shared instance
	private static Activator plugin;
	
	public ServicesList servicesList;
 

and registered a BundleListener

  
	public void start(BundleContext context) throws Exception {...
		this.servicesList= new ServicesList();
		context.addBundleListener(this);
		
	...}

In the listener I store an array of all bundles and sort out the ones I am interested in

  
@Override
	public void bundleChanged(BundleEvent event) {
		Bundle[] bundles = context.getBundles();
		servicesList.cleanList();
 		for(Bundle b:bundles){
 			if(b.getSymbolicName().startsWith("my.specific.bundletype.")){
 				servicesList.addServiceBundle(b);
 			}
 		}
		
	}

I reallize this is probably not the Eclipse way of doing storage, so does someone have another solution?

Any help would be greatly appreciated!