Resources overview

An essential plug-in for Eclipse IDE applications is the resources plug-in (named org.eclipse.core.resources). The resources plug-in provides services for accessing the projects, folders, and files that a user is working with.

For more information on workspace resources, check out some of the following documents:

• Resources and the workspace
• Resources and the file system
• Resource properties
• Project-scoped preferences
• File encoding and content types
• Linked resources
• Virtual folders
• Resources filters
• Resource markers
• Modifying the workspace
  • Batching resource changes
  • Tracking resource changes
  • Concurrency and the workspace

If you still haven't found what you need, venture on to the Advanced resource concepts section.