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Asked: 2026-05-23T10:32:38+00:00

I’m developing an Eclipse-Plugin which has it’s own preference page. First question: Is it

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I’m developing an Eclipse-Plugin which has it’s own preference page.

First question: Is it possible to store these preferences workspace independent? Instead, I’d like to store it for the Eclipse installation. If yes, how?

Second question: I’d like to add a table to my preference page which has one column and a checkbox for each row (to sign the row entry as active or inactive). The column should contain file locations and/or urls of text files. So for the one preference setting, I’d have to store a list of location and the information whether it’s active or not. Which would be the best way (which delimiters?)?

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  1. Editorial Team

    The Eclipse Preference service do support a scope context for the preference store. You can either store preferences in an Eclipse project, in the workspace, in the instance installation or into a custom scope.
    Please refer to the following FAQ for more information on Eclipse Preference Scope: http://wiki.eclipse.org/FAQ_What_is_a_preference_scope%3F

    For the way to store your table preferences, IMO there is no real best way to do it. I would say that you can serialize the whole table into a string using a specific pattern/matcher to parse it.
    For instance, you can use the following format:

    your.table.preference=(url1,boolean);(url2,boolean);(url3,boolean)
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