Eclipse Platform Overview

The Eclipse platform consists of a number of subsystems that implement one or more plug-ins (plug-in). The subsystem is built on a small runtime engine. As shown in.

Workbench

Workbench refers to the desktop development Environment (development environment). The goal is to achieve seamless tool integration and controllable openness by providing a common paradigm for the Creation,management,and navigation of workspace resources .

Each Workbench window consists of one or more view perspective. The view contains Views,editors and control (rendered as menus and toolbars). Multiple workbench windows can exist.

Related concepts

Features
Resources
Perspectives
Views
Editors
CVS repositories

Related Tasks

Installing new software
Opening perspectives
Opening views
Switching between perspectives
Showing and hiding menu items and toolbar buttons
Configuring Perspective Command Groups
Configuring Perspective Shortcuts

Related references

Toolbar buttons

Eclipse Platform Overview