Originally posted by Jean Miles:
Suppose there was a standalone tool such as mobile phone emulator, can I customize it to be a plug-in in Eclipse?
Sure you
can. It's all about how much work it is to do just that. There's nothing stopping you from launching the same
Java (or native) application upon actions in the Eclipse framework. Also, there's nothing stopping you from merging the standalone application's GUI into the Eclipse UI framework. Except the raw amount of labour.