Step 3 Exploring the Workbench

The Eclipse workbench is comprised of several "perspectives". A perspective is a set of windows used for a particular task. The most frequently used perpsectives are the Java perspective which is used to edit, compile, and run your code and the Debug perspective used for debugging. The Java Browsing perspective is useful to browse through the various components like packages, classes in the java project.

The current perspective is identified and can be changed in the small box in the upper right hand corner of the screen. It should currently say Java indicating the Java perspective.

Java Perspective

One can also go to 'window->open perspective' and change the perspective. Java Perspective is the default perspective.

Continue to Step 4 to look at the Java perspective.