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This plug-in contains the bulk of the Workbench implementation, and depends on JFace, SWT, and Core Runtime. It cannot be used independently from org.eclipse.ui. Workbench client plug-ins should not depend directly on this plug-in.

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/*******************************************************************************
 * Copyright (c) 2000, 2006 IBM Corporation and others.
 * All rights reserved. This program and the accompanying materials
 * are made available under the terms of the Eclipse Public License v1.0
 * which accompanies this distribution, and is available at
 * http://www.eclipse.org/legal/epl-v10.html
 *
 * Contributors:
 *     IBM Corporation - initial API and implementation
 *******************************************************************************/

package org.eclipse.ui.part;

/**
 * Parts which need to provide a particular context to a Show In...
 * target can provide this interface.
 * The part can either directly implement this interface, or provide it
 * via IAdaptable.getAdapter(IShowInSource.class).
 * 
 * @see IShowInTarget
 * 
 * @since 2.1
 */
public interface IShowInSource {

    /**
     * Returns the context to show, or null if there is 
     * currently no valid context to show.
     * 
     * @return the context to show, or null
     */
    public ShowInContext getShowInContext();
}