| <article link="decorators.html"> |
| <title>Understanding Decorators in Eclipse</title> |
| <date>January 16, 2003</date> |
| |
| <category>Platform</category> |
| <category>Decorators</category> |
| <category>Resources</category> |
| <category>Plug-ins</category> |
| |
| <author> |
| <name>Balaji Krish-Sampath</name> |
| <company>IBM</company> |
| </author> |
| <description> |
| Decorators, as the name suggests, are used for |
| adorning/annotating resources with useful information. |
| Decorators can be used by plug-ins to convey more information |
| about a resource and other objects displayed in different |
| workbench views. This article, with the help of a simple plug-in |
| example, will illustrate the steps involved in decorating |
| resources, along with some best practice approaches for |
| decorating resources. Finally, we will discuss performance |
| issues that may arise when enabling decorators, and briefly go |
| over the new lightweight decorators found in Eclipse 2.1. |
| </description> |
| </article> |