[news.eclipse.tools.jdt] Re: How to trigger UI refreshes from a "job"

[John Arthorne <john@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

See:

Platform Plugin Developer Guide > Programmer's Guide > SWT > Threading 
Issues.
http://dev.eclipse.org/viewcvs/index.cgi/%7Echeckout%7E/platform-swt-home/faq.html#uithread
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Michael Moser wrote:
> Sorry for this maybe stupid question but I didn't find anything in the 
> online help, so I would appreciate some hint or pointer:
>
> I am writing an eclipse plugin and - trying to keep the platform 
> responsive - I moved some heavyweight activity into a background 
> "org.eclipse.core.runtime.jobs.Job".
>
> But now I ran into the famous SWT thread problem: when that Job is done, 
> it should trigger some view to update. How do I trigger such an update 
> when that job/thread is not supposed to call SWT, i.e. what's the 
> suggested alternative to org.eclipse.ui.part.ViewPart.refresh() that can 
> be called from a Job?
>
> Michael