Eclipse Plug-in Development Beginner's Guide - Second Edition

Sorting and filtering

One of the features of JFace is that ordering of the data can be processed by the view, rather than having the data pre-processed. This makes it easy to present sorted or filtered views, where the user either searches for a particular term, or performs a sort in a different manner. These filters are used heavily in the Eclipse IDE, where options such as Hide libraries from external and Hide closed projects can be found in many of the drop-down actions for the view.