Chapter 10Perspectives
Perspectives are a way to group Eclipse views and commands for a particular task such as coding or debugging. Larger Eclipse enhancements that involve multiple plug-ins may provide their own perspectives. Smaller Eclipse enhancements that involve only one or two plug-ins and provide only one or two new Eclipse views typically enhance existing perspectives rather than provide entirely new perspectives.
This chapter will further extend the Favorites example by creating a new perspective for hosting the Favorites view and show how to add the Favorites view to existing perspectives.
10.1 Creating a Perspective
To create a new perspective, extend the org.eclipse.ui.perspectives extension point and then define ...
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