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+/*******************************************************************************
+ * Copyright (c) 2013 Intel Corporation.
+ * All rights reserved. This program and the accompanying materials
+ * are made available under the terms of the Eclipse Public License v1.0
+ * which accompanies this distribution, and is available at
+ * http://www.eclipse.org/legal/epl-v10.html
+ *
+ * Contributors:
+ * Ioana Grigoropol(Intel) - initial API and implementation
+ *******************************************************************************/
+package org.yocto.remote.utils;
+
+import org.eclipse.swt.widgets.Display;
+import org.eclipse.ui.console.ConsolePlugin;
+import org.eclipse.ui.console.IConsole;
+import org.eclipse.ui.console.IConsoleManager;
+import org.eclipse.ui.console.MessageConsole;
+
+public class ConsoleHelper {
+        public static final String YOCTO_CONSOLE = "Yocto Project Console";
+
+        public static MessageConsole findConsole(String name) {
+                ConsolePlugin plugin = ConsolePlugin.getDefault();
+                IConsoleManager conMan = plugin.getConsoleManager();
+                IConsole[] existing = conMan.getConsoles();
+                for (int i = 0; i < existing.length; i++)
+                        if (name.equals(existing[i].getName()))
+                                return (MessageConsole) existing[i];
+                // no console found, so create a new one
+                MessageConsole myConsole = new MessageConsole(name, null);
+                conMan.addConsoles(new IConsole[] { myConsole });
+                return myConsole;
+        }
+
+        public static void showConsole(MessageConsole console){
+                Display.getDefault().syncExec(new ConsoleRunnable(console));
+        }
+}