I have a lot of experience developing RCP and Eclipse extensions. The architecture is modular, but there are many many dependencies for most things JDT will b

I have a lot of experience developing RCP and Eclipse extensions. The architecture is modular, but there are many many dependencies for most things JDT will bring in most of org.eclipse.ui org...equinox and their siblings. That said, I love Eclipse IDE and think the OP is whining too much.