====== Saving Bundle State Data ======
Problem number one is: //Where to save the data?//

Eclipse provides a bundle state location which can be obtain in various ways.

===== Eclipse Platform =====
The ''org.eclipse.core.runtime.Platform'' class has various methods for working with the application runtime.

  Bundle bundle = Platform.getBundle(PLUGIN_ID);
  IPath location = Platform.getStateLocation(bundle);
  
This returns the location to a directory the bundle can use to store some bundle specific data. The directory will exist if queried in this way.

Internal: The directory can be found at ''<workspace>/.metadata/.plugins/<my_plugin>''


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