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title: 11. Find Usages Provider
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A find usage provider uses a word scanner to build an index of words present in every file.
A scanner breaks the text into words, defines the context for each word and passes it to the find usage provider.

### 11.1. Define a find usages provider

{% include_code simple_language_plugin/src/com/simpleplugin/SimpleFindUsagesProvider.java %}

### 11.2. Register the find usages provider

```xml
<lang.findUsagesProvider language="Simple" implementationClass="com.simpleplugin.SimpleFindUsagesProvider"/>
```

### 11.3. Run the project

Now we can call *Find Usages* for any property with a reference.

![Find Usages](img/find_usages.png)

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