How to make an eclipse plugin load on startup

Question

I have an Eclipse plugin based RCP application. I want to add one plugin in it and I want that it should be initialized as soon as the application is launched (and not lazy initialization).

How can I do that?

Answer 1

For a 3.x style RCP use the org.eclipse.ui.startup extension point to specify a class which implements org.eclipse.ui.IStartup. This will be called early on in Eclipse start up.