Text Search with Logging

This tool is like grep. You can enter regular expression or keyword style queries with wildcards. DO NOT use the built-in File Search in Eclipse.

When using the tool be sure to:

  1. Select the project you want to search in the left pane
  2. Open the Eclipse search dialog
  3. Select the Text Search with Logging tab
  4. Select "Selected resources" in Scope
  5. Enter *.java as the file name pattern
  6. Create a query
  7. Continue entering a query until you believe you have found the feature's implementation
The search results will look like this:

The results are organized by packages and files in the project. To see all the results at once, hit the '+' button in the upper right. Clicking on a result will bring up the source code.