When you need to look examples of usages of some library api, you usually use "Find Usages". Currently you can use either "Project Files" as a scope or "Project and Libraries". The first one isn't many times broad enough and the latter takes unnecessary amount of time. The solution is to look the usages first in the containing library and only after that from other libraries (It is more likely that hibernate.jar contains references to hibernate classes than a jdk rt.jar containing references to hibernate classes). The search can then be stopped when enough references has been found. Additionally a specific scope could be provided: "Project and containing library"