Platform Changes
ILog can now be acquired as service, so no need to have a Plugin activator or call Platform.getLog(...) anymore if you are in a Dependency Injection Context:
Example with E4:
@Inject ILog log;
Example with Declarative Services:
@Reference ILog log;
Of course any other way to acquire a Service (ServiceTracker, ServiceCaller, ...) will also work.
.getServiceContext(Class<?>) method
There is now a new EclipseContextFactory.getServiceContext(Class<?>) method that could be used to acquire an E4 Service Context containing all OSGi services using a context class.
This becomes handy in situations where you neither have an E4 context nor an OSGi context at hand (e.g. E3 legacy code) but still want to inject some fields or create injected objects.
SWT Changes
Text widget now supports improved search and cancel buttons in the dark theme:
On Windows 10, all the dark theme tweaks including the dark text's search and cancel buttons can be disabled using the
org.eclipse.swt.internal.win32.disableCustomThemeTweaks Java property.
For Example: add this VM argument in eclipse.ini or on the command line after -vmargs:
-Dorg.eclipse.swt.internal.win32.disableCustomThemeTweaks=true