How to programmatically retrieve your plug-ins' version number

You would like to be able to use Java code to get the plug-in information.

ANSWERS

There are a couple of possible answers to this question:

• Use org.osgi.framework.BundleContext.getBundles(), for example, from your activator class inside your plugin in order to retrieve all the plug-ins
  
  OR
• Use the following code in order to retrieve the plugins by features:
  IBundleGroupProvider[] providers = Platform.getBundleGroupProviders();

  if (providers != null) {

   for (int i = 0; i < providers.length; ++i) {

    IBundleGroup[] bundleGroups = providers[i].getBundleGroups(); //bundle //group is the same as feature

    for (int j = 0; j < bundleGroups.length; ++j) {

   for (int k = 0; k < bundles.length; ++k) {

   }

  }

 }

}


NOTE: Each of these two solutions might give different set of plugins, as not all plugins need to be grouped in features.