Flexible workspaces
Last modified: October 18, 2005

Overview

In Eclipse 3.1 and earlier, the org.eclipse.core.resources 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 flexible workspaces.

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