Copyright (c) 2008, 2011 IBM Corporation and others.
This program and the accompanying materials
are made available under the terms of the Eclipse Public License 2.0
which accompanies this distribution, and is available at
https://www.eclipse.org/legal/epl-2.0/
SPDX-License-Identifier: EPL-2.0
Contributors:
   IBM Corporation - initial API and implementation
/*******************************************************************************
 * Copyright (c) 2008, 2011 IBM Corporation and others.
 *
 * This program and the accompanying materials
 * are made available under the terms of the Eclipse Public License 2.0
 * which accompanies this distribution, and is available at
 * https://www.eclipse.org/legal/epl-2.0/
 *
 * SPDX-License-Identifier: EPL-2.0
 *
 * Contributors:
 *    IBM Corporation - initial API and implementation
 *******************************************************************************/
package org.eclipse.compare.internal.core;

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

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

	// The plug-in ID
	public static final String PLUGIN_ID = "org.eclipse.compare.core"; //$NON-NLS-1$

	// The shared instance
	private static ComparePlugin plugin;

	private boolean cappingDisabled;

	
The constructor
/**
	 * The constructor
	 */
	public ComparePlugin() {
		// nothing to do
	}

	@Override
	public void start(BundleContext context) throws Exception {
		super.start(context);
		plugin = this;
	}

	@Override
	public void stop(BundleContext context) throws Exception {
		plugin = null;
		super.stop(context);
	}

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

	public static void log(Throwable e) {
		log(new Status(IStatus.ERROR, PLUGIN_ID, 0, Messages.Activator_1, e));
	}

	public static void log(IStatus status) {
		getDefault().getLog().log(status);
	}

	public void setCappingDisabled(boolean disable) {
		this.cappingDisabled = disable;
	}

	public boolean isCappingDisabled() {
		return this.cappingDisabled;
	}

}