Terms

Adornment

One of the little symbols shown on top of an icon such as F for final or S for static.

Class

In this document we have used the term class to mean type where a type is a class or an interface, unless it has been specifically indicated that we mean class without including interfaces.

Diagram

Since AgileJ StructureViews only supports Class Diagrams we tend to just call these Diagrams.

Element

The JDT presents Java as a convenient hierarchy of elements including classes, methods and fields, which can be navigated and examined by making API calls.

Element Set

A set of Elements as defined by some inclusion rules. For example, all public static fields.

JDT

From the point of view of AgileJ StructureViews, the Java development tools (JDT) API is the part of Eclipse which provides the Java structure browsing information about your code.

The Profile

The collection of filter and display directives which are available to the Diagram Editor, as stated in profile files pointed to by the Profile Path.

Profile File

A file with the extension .ajsvp containing the definition of Profile Parts.

Resource

A file belonging to an Eclipse project.

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