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Plugin life cycle
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Is there a way to hook on to the plugin life cycle methods like start and stop, so that I can launch an external process and kill it when the plugin gets destroyed.
If it is for your own plugin please see http://confluence.jetbrains.com/display/IDEADEV/IntelliJ+IDEA+Plugin+Structure