Is there a way to run plug-in applications for eclipse without fully launching the eclipse platform

Question

Consider a simple "Hello world" plugin, how can I run it without fully launching the eclipse platform?

Answer 1

Since eclipse plugins are OSGi packages, you can run a simple hello-world plugin in an OSGi container like Equinox or Apache Felix

Here is an example of how to start the eclipse standalone help system. (This, of course, has more dependencies than hello-world)