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There are several ways to display debug, progress or even warning messages.

* The common way is to write to the console, which only works if debugging is performed in a development environment or so. Simply use: <pre>System.out.println("debugmessagehere")</pre>

* If you only want to display a progress report (e.g. counting the number of items processed) you may use a ThreadedPlugIn (interface, or ThreadedBasePlugIn) and the TaskMonitor of the ''run'' method, e.g. <pre>monitor.report("prepare computation");</pre>

* if you want to sent the user a warning message (or other message) you may use either <pre>context.getWorkbenchFrame().warnUser("blabla");</pre> or <pre>context.getWorkbenchFrame().setTimeMEssage("blabla");</pre>

* a not so direct method, but useful for sending long reports at the end of the processing is to generate a new html output window as shown in the "Hello World" example of the Developer's Guide.
<pre>
context.getWorkbenchFrame().getOutputFrame().createNewDocument();
context.getWorkbenchFrame().getOutputFrame().addText(getString("Hallo"));
context.getWorkbenchFrame().getOutputFrame().surface();
</pre>

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