In Introduction to resources, we saw how resources are represented in the platform and how they map to files in the file system. Now that we have built several plug-ins for the platform, we look again at the resources API and how you can use it for additional functionality in your plug-in.
The resources API allows you to tag resources with special information, find out about changes to resources, implement specialized builders that perform transformations on resources, and save plug-in specific information along with a resource.