tl;dr Vote at https://github.com/enikao/eclipse-commons/issues/1 in favor or against creating an Eclipse Commons (akin to Apache Commons) project. Rationale Have you ever done an Eclipse / EMF project without implementing this code? 12345678public static IResource toIResource(URI uri) {     if (uri.isPlatformResource()) {         return ResourcesPlugin.getWorkspace().getRoot()             .findMember(uri.toPlatformString(true)); […]