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[news.eclipse.platform] Can I write an Eclipse File System plugin and get the Navigator to use it?

I have a situation where our final deployment destination is an AS/400 system and we are not satisfied with using the \\as400\where\ever mechanism.

IBM has a Java toolkit which could be used to create a Eclipse Filesystem Plugin if Eclipse could be persuaded to use it in e.g. the Navigator view or even better in the Java Project view. We don't need full IDE capability, I just want to either drag-drop to there or to use it as the target of an "Export jar" command.

I have tried browsing around the documentation but I cannot find anything that says that the EFS is available in the IDE - only to plugin writers. Perhaps I do not know the correct terms, but I would appreciate learning of them.

Another approach that might be usable to us for now, would be to extend the Export Jar mechanism to allow the jar to go to any EFS resource.

Any ideas and comments?

Best regards,
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  Thorbjørn