Eclipse
provides a Marker mechanism to associate messages of different categories with
resources (files). These markers can be of different severity, such as error, warning, and
informational. Markers have a message text and a location into the resource. The location can
be resource type specific. For example, line numbers are used for text resources, while URIs
are used for XML-based documents such as AADL model in XML (files with the extension
aaxl). The markers are shown in the Problem view when the resource is
selected in the
Navigator. When a Marker double clicked in the Problem view Eclipse causes the appropriate
Editor to go to the location in the resource.