Deferred Fetching of Model Elements with JFace Viewers

On December 2, 2014, Posted by , In Eclipse, By ,, , With 9 Comments

Model elements displayed by Eclipse JFace Viewers sometimes take a considerable amount of time to load. Because of this the workbench provides the type IDeferredWorkbenchAdapter to fetch such model elements in background. Unfortunately this mechanism seems to be supported only for AbstractTreeViewer derivates via the DeferredTreeContentManager. Hence I developed a…