Search support

If your plug-in defines and manipulates its own resource types, you may have special requirements for searching a resource.  For example, the Java IDE plug-in implements a search engine specialized for Java files.   

The search plug-in allows you to add a specialized page describing your search to the workbench search dialog.  This allows you to correct any specialized information needed from the user and perform a search using your plug-ins internal model.

Once the search results are found, you may also provide a specialized class for sorting the search results in the search results view.

Both of these services are provided using search plug-in extension points.

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