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Provides support for extending the base installation | |
and update services. | |
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Package Specification</h2> | |
This package specifies the API required for writing pluggable support of | |
alternate feature packaging schemes and update site access mechanisms. | |
For the most part, the classes and interfaces in this package implement | |
a code pattern <tt>class Foo extends FooModel implements IFoo</tt>. The | |
interface (<tt>IFoo</tt> in the pattern) defines the actual API. The convenience | |
classes (<tt>Foo</tt> in the pattern) provide a reference implementation | |
of the API based on a model (<tt>IFooModel</tt> in the pattern) contained | |
in package <b>org.eclipse.update.core.model</b>. In general, developers | |
should extend the convenience classes rather than completely reimplementing | |
the specified interfaces. | |
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