Answer:
Each plug-in can be viewed as having a declarative section and a code section. The declarative part is contained in the plugin.xml file. This file is loaded into a registry when the platform starts up and so is always available, regardless of whether a plug-in has started. The code section are laze loaded by default. They are activated only when their functionality has been explicitly invoked by the user.
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