[news.eclipse.tools.jdt] Re: problems with searching for references

[Frederic Fusier <frederic_fusier@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Rudolf Ziegaus wrote:
 > Hello Frederic,
> thanks for your reply. No, I did not mean the "File Search" in Eclipse. I
> was talking about using "References" from the context menu. When I choose
> the same working set as I do for my own search, I do get a match for a
> class in "plugin.xml" that I don't get when I use my own search method.
> Maybe Eclipse is doing additionally a search in all found "plugin.xml"
> files?
>
> Rudi

You're right, I never noticed that... and it seems to exist since 3.2!
Thanks for the tip :-)

However, this match is not reported by Search Engine, but by the "PDE Java
Search Participant" which extends the org.eclipse.jdt.ui.queryParticipants
extension point in MANIFEST.MF of org.eclipse.pde.ui plugin.