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public class PersonPropertySource implements IPropertySource {
	private final Person person;

	public PersonPropertySource(Person person) {
		this.person = person;
	}

	public Object getEditableValue() {
		return this;
	}

	public IPropertyDescriptor[] getPropertyDescriptors() {
		return new IPropertyDescriptor[] {
				new TextPropertyDescriptor("name", "Name"),
				new TextPropertyDescriptor("street", "Street"),
				new TextPropertyDescriptor("city", "City")
		};
	}

	public Object getPropertyValue(Object id) {
		if ("name".equals(id)) return person.getName();
		else if ("street".equals(id)) return person.getStreet();
		else if ("city".equals(id)) return person.getCity();
		return null;
	}

	public boolean isPropertySet(Object id) {
		return false;
	}

	public void resetPropertyValue(Object id) {
	}

	public void setPropertyValue(Object id, Object value) {
		if ("name".equals(id)) person.setName((String)value);
		else if ("street".equals(id)) person.setStreet((String)value);
		else if ("city".equals(id)) person.setCity((String)value);
	}

}

IAdapterManager manager = Platform.getAdapterManager();
IAdapter adapter. = manager.getAdapter(object, IResource.class);

public class PersonPropertiesSourceAdapterFactory implements IAdapterFactory {
  //*** The method takes care of figuring out how to adapt the instance
	public Object getAdapter(Object adaptableObject, Class adapterType) {
		if (adapterType == IPropertySource.class)
			return new PersonPropertySource((Person)adaptableObject);
		return null;
	}

	public Class[] getAdapterList() {
		return new Class[] {IPropertySource.class};
	}
}

public class Person {
	private String name;
	private Object street;
	private Object city;

	public Person(String name) {
		this.name = name;
		this.street = "";
		this.city = "";
	}
}

<plugin>
   <extension
         point="org.eclipse.core.runtime.adapters">
      <factory
            adaptableType="org.eclipse.articles.adapters.core.Person"
            class="org.eclipse.articles.adapters.properties.PersonPropertiesSourceAdapterFactory">
         <adapter
               type="org.eclipse.ui.views.properties.IPropertySource">
         </adapter>
      </factory>
   </extension>
</plugin>

The use of the Adapter pattern is to allow plug-ins to be loosely coupled
Instances of the person class, when selected in the favourite view, will populate the Properties view.
Source code: https://github.com/capint/codesnippet.eclipsercp/tree/master/adapters