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| <font size="-1">Last modified: October 18, 2005</font> |
| <h3>Overview</h3> |
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| In Eclipse 3.1 and earlier, the <tt>org.eclipse.core.resources</tt> plugin was tightly |
| coupled with the local file system. Each project and linked resource was mapped |
| to a particular file or directory in the local file system. In Eclipse 3.2, support |
| was added to create resources that are stored in an arbitrary file system. |
| For example, a project can now be created whose files and directories are stored on a network, |
| in a database, or any facility capable of storing hierarchies of files and directories. |
| This new ability to decouple resources in the workspace from the local file system is |
| called <i>flexible workspaces</i>. |
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| The following are links to other documents relating to this plan item: |
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| <li><a href="issues.html">Related issues and requests</a>.</li> |
| <li><a href="migration.html">Migration guide</a> for clients of the IResource API.</li> |
| <li><a href="filesystem-example.psf>File system example plugin</a>. Import this team project set to load |
| an example plugin that contains some sample file systems and various UI actions |
| for working with these file systems.</i> |
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