Understanding MANIFEST.MF view

Overview

General information

ID	It refers to the ID of this plugin. It will be used by other plugins to connect with this plugin. e.g. : com.eclipse.basic
Version	When other plugins will integrate with your plugin, it will provide version also with the ID to uniquely identify the code.
Name	Name is used as Metadata for the plugin
Vendor	Name of the vendor this plugin belongs to.
Activator	It will refer to the first class (Activator) has to be called when this plugin will execute.

Dependencies

Required Plugins	List of Plug-ins required by the current plugin. Each plugin would have dependency on the other plugins and uses the code of other plugin. in required Plugin, the version (or range of version) of the Plug-in can also me mentioned which is required. For example, the basic eclipse plugins are org.eclipse.ui will be used for various UI design. Version can me mentioned here :
Imported Packages	Instead of entire plugin only some specific package of the plugin is required, then it has to be specified here.