Eclipse changed in incompatible ways between 4.4 and 4.5 in ways that affect plug-ins. The following entries describe the areas that changed and provide instructions for migrating 4.4 plug-ins to 4.5. Note that you only need to look here if you are experiencing problems running your 4.4 plug-in on 4.5.
See also the list of deprecated API removals for this release.
What is affected: Clients that are getting the Locale injected.
Description:
The Translation.LOCALE key allows clients to get the current Locale injected. The
type has changed from String to Locale.
Action required: Clients that directly use API listed above should remove any references to it.
What is affected: Clients accessing the package.
Description:
The packages of org.eclipse.e4.ui.workbench.addons should all be internal API as the platform team
want to have the freedom to adjust them. Unfortunately it was forgotten to mark org.eclipse.e4.ui.workbench.addons.splitteraddon as
internal in 4.4.
Action required: Clients that directly use API listed above should remove any references to it.
What is affected: Clients using the SWT.Sleep and SWT.Wakeup events.
Description:
SWT.Sleep and SWT.Wakeup events introduced in 4.4 are now deprecated in favour of the more generic events SWT.PreExternalEventDispatch and SWT.PostExternalEventDispatch, respectively.
Bug report for this change
Action required: Clients that were written using the old event names should be updated to refer to the new events.
What is affected: Clients using ICompatibleWorkbenchPage and org.eclipse.ui.workbench.compatibility.
Description: The ICompatibleWorkbenchPage interface and the org.eclipse.ui.workbench.compatibility plug-in have been removed. Please note that the support for 2.0 plug-ins was already removed in the past. Bug report for this change
Action required: Clients that were using this interface and this plug-in must update.