Summary
We covered the mechanisms that Eclipse uses to store metadata values. A preference store is the key/value pair mechanism used by preference pages as well as interacted with programmatically from headless plug-ins.
In the next chapter, we will see how to work with Resource objects inside Eclipse.
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