Bug 87089 [Viewers] LabelProvider.getImage is not invoked after the TreeViewer changes introduced on 24/01/2005
If you compare the versions 1.26 and 1.25 of the method doUpdateItem(Item item, Object element) in org.eclipse.jface.viewers.TreeViewer, you will notice a change in the way the image of the element is calculated. In 1.25, the image of the Element is set in the "buildLabel" method which doesn't have a special treatment for ITableLabelProvider. In 1.26, if the label provider is a ITableLabelProvider, instead of calling ILabelProvider.getImage(Object), the code always invokes ITableLabelProvider.getColunmImage(Object). This change has broken the icons on one of the EMF generated editors (the mapping editor) as the images I will attach here demostrate.
bundles/org.eclipse.jface/src/org/eclipse/jface/viewers/TreeViewer.java
ITableFontProvider fontProvider = null;
		ITableColorProvider colorProvider = null;
		
		/**
		 * Create an instance of the receiver. Set the color and font
		 * providers if provider can be cast to the correct type.
		 * @param provider IBaseLabelProvider
		 */
		public TreeColorAndFontCollector(IBaseLabelProvider provider){
			if(provider instanceof ITableFontProvider)
				fontProvider = (ITableFontProvider) provider;
			if(provider instanceof ITableColorProvider)
				colorProvider = (ITableColorProvider) provider;
		}
		
		/**
		 * Create an instance of the receiver with no color and font
		 * providers.
		 */
		public TreeColorAndFontCollector(){
		}
		
		/**