When I search for classes I can only find by fully qualified class name. How does eclipse find classes when I do Ctrl-Shift-O? This is for a eclipse plugin.
When I search for classes I can only find by fully qualified class name.
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When I search for classes I can only find by fully qualified class name. How does eclipse find classes when I do Ctrl-Shift-O? This is for a eclipse plugin.
Note that Eclipse builds an index for all classes in projects (source folders and libraries), and the searches are against this index. The regular Java classloader does not have this kind of functionality (it only does lookup by full name).
Since you are doing this for an Eclipse plugin, have a look at the source for the search function in the Java tooling. There should be an API you can reuse.