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27  </font></span></font></span></div>  </font></span></font></span></div>
28  <br>  <br>
29  <div style="margin-left: 40px;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Summary<br>  <div style="margin-left: 40px;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Summary<br>
30  </span>This document describes how the Eclipse 3.1 workbench works. It  </span>This document describes how the Eclipse 3.1 workbench works. In
31  describes the infrastructure that makes views and editors work. The  particular, it
32    describes the internal classes that manage views and editors. The
33  goal is to make the reader familiar with important classes in the  goal is to make the reader familiar with important classes in the
34  workbench, and how they interact. It is assumed that the reader is  workbench, and how they interact. It is assumed that the reader is
35  already familiar with the workbench APIs, and with creating views,  already familiar with using the workbench APIs and with creating views,
36  editors, action sets.<br>  editors, action sets, etc. <br>
37  <br>  <br>
38  <span style="font-weight: bold;">Stefan Xenos, IBM</span><br>  <span style="font-weight: bold;">Stefan Xenos, IBM</span><br>
39  July 12, 2005<br>  July 12, 2005<br>
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90  Introduction</span>  Introduction</span>
91  <br>  <br>
92  </h1>  </h1>
93  <span style="font-weight: bold;"></span>  <span style="font-weight: bold;"></span> This document describes
94    workbench internals and not API. The design of internals changes
95    frequently. For information on newer Eclipse versions, the latest
96    version of this document can be found on the <a
97     href="http://dev.eclipse.org/viewcvs/index.cgi/%7Echeckout%7E/platform-ui-home/dev.html">UI
98    development resources page</a>.<br>
99    <br>
100  <br>  <br>
101  <div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Figure  <div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Figure
102  1.0.1: Ownership of views and editors<br>  1.0.1: Ownership of views and editors<br>
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176  allows the client code to communicate with the reference and manages  allows the client code to communicate with the reference and manages
177  services created for the implementation.<br>  services created for the implementation.<br>
178  <br>  <br>
179  WorkbenchPartReferences allocate SWT resources lazily as needed.  WorkbenchPartReferences allocates SWT resources lazily as needed.
180  Once created, the part reference must be explicitly disposed. Disposing  Once created, the part reference must be explicitly disposed. Disposing
181  the reference cleans up all of its resources (including the part  the reference cleans up all of its resources (including the part
182  implementation itself) and guarantees that the reference will never  implementation itself) and guarantees that the reference will never
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990  of the above have happened successfully, it must not be possible to  of the above have happened successfully, it must not be possible to
991  reach the object through any API method.<br>  reach the object through any API method.<br>
992  <br>  <br>
993  Keep in mind that the may trigger other client code during its own  Keep in mind that the object may trigger other client code during its
994    own
995  initialization, so it should not even be possible for an object to find  initialization, so it should not even be possible for an object to find
996  itself during construction.<br>  itself during construction.<br>
997  <h2><a class="mozTocH3" name="mozTocId959546"></a>4.2 No method may  <h2><a class="mozTocH3" name="mozTocId959546"></a>4.2 No method may

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