/*******************************************************************************
 * Copyright (c) 2009 IBM Corporation.
 * All rights reserved. This program and the accompanying materials
 * are made available under the terms of the Eclipse Public License v1.0
 * which accompanies this distribution, and is available at
 * http://www.eclipse.org/legal/epl-v10.html
 * 
 * Contributors:
 *     IBM Corporation - initial API and implementation
 ******************************************************************************/
package org.eclipse.ptp.rm.pbs.core;

import org.eclipse.core.runtime.Plugin;
import org.osgi.framework.BundleContext;

/**
 * The activator class controls the plug-in life cycle
 */
public class Activator extends Plugin {

	// The plug-in ID
	private static final String PLUGIN_ID = "org.eclipse.ptp.rm.pbs.core"; //$NON-NLS-1$

	// The shared instance
	private static Activator plugin;

	/**
	 * Returns the shared instance
	 * 
	 * @return the shared instance
	 */
	public static Activator getDefault() {
		return plugin;
	}

	/**
	 * Generate a unique identifier
	 * 
	 * @return unique identifier string
	 * @since 5.0
	 */
	public static String getUniqueIdentifier() {
		if (getDefault() == null) {
			return PLUGIN_ID;
		}
		return getDefault().getBundle().getSymbolicName();
	}

	/**
	 * The constructor
	 */
	public Activator() {
		plugin = this;
	}

	/*
	 * (non-Javadoc)
	 * 
	 * @see
	 * org.eclipse.core.runtime.Plugins#start(org.osgi.framework.BundleContext)
	 */
	@Override
	public void start(BundleContext context) throws Exception {
		super.start(context);
	}

	/*
	 * (non-Javadoc)
	 * 
	 * @see
	 * org.eclipse.core.runtime.Plugin#stop(org.osgi.framework.BundleContext)
	 */
	@Override
	public void stop(BundleContext context) throws Exception {
		plugin = null;
		super.stop(context);
	}
}