Required bundle org.eclipse.swt prevents RSE from working with Eclipse RAP

Bugzilla Link	420312
Status	NEW
Importance	P3 normal
Reported	Oct 24, 2013 14:59 EDT
Modified	Dec 03, 2013 18:59 EDT
Reporter	Jay Billings

Description

Created attachment 236855
A picture of the target definition showing the RSE errors

RSE (org.eclipse.rse.core) explicitly requires org.eclipse.swt in its MANIFEST.MF file instead of importing the packages. This prevents RSE from being used by applications that replace the SWT packages, like RWT in Eclipse RAP.

This is true in all versions of RSE and Eclipse RAP and can be observed by creating a target with only Eclipse RAP and RSE components.

The RSE UI bundles, org.eclipse.rse.files.ui and org.eclipse.rse.efs.ui, require many more UI bundles explicitly are are likely much more affected by this bug than org.eclipse.rse.core.

This bug prevents RAP developers from using RSE components. It is a blocker for those developers, but does not affect RAP developers.

I attached a picture of the target definition errors for reference.

Jay

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