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In the Perspectives lecture you learned how to extend the Eclipse user interface by adding a perspective.

This example builds a perspective as shown below, using the view called MyView that is provided on this CD-ROM, and shortcuts to perspectives and wizards.

 

Running the Solution

Please verify that you have installed the code from the CD-ROM and you have a project in your workspace named, com.ibm.soln.Perspective. To run the example, launch the run-time instance of Eclipse (Run > Run-time Workbench).
Select Window > Open Perspective > Soln: Perspective. The new perspective is opened. You will notice that there is no editor area and that the view called MyView is in its place.
A wizard shortcut called Soln: My Basic Wizard is added to the list of wizard shortcuts


Another distinguishing characteristic of this perspective is that it adds the Java Type perspective to the list of perspective shortcuts.

Roadmap of the Solution

Let's explore the steps involved to create this example.

  1. Create the perspective class.

    The class that defines the perspective is called EduPerspective. When defining a new perspective, you need to implement the IPerspectiveFactory interface.

  2. Define the initial layout

    In the EduPerspective class, the createInitialLayout method defines the layout of the perspective the first time it is displayed.

The table below contains the class description and link to the Javadoc.

Class (All) Description
EduPerspective     Creates a new perspective called EduPerspective

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