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<p class="style1">Views</p>
<p>PDE provides four views that help plug-in developers inspect different aspects of their development environment. These views can be opened via <a class="command-link" href='javascript:executeCommand("org.eclipse.ui.views.showView()")'>
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<strong>Window &gt; Show View &gt; Other... &gt; PDE Runtime</strong>
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<p><img src="../../images/views/all_views.PNG" alt="PDE View Categories" hspace="30"> </p>
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<p>For detailed information on individual PDE views, refer to the following documents:</p>
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<li><a href="error_log.htm">Error Log</a></li>
<li><a href="plugin_registry.htm">Plug-in Registry</a></li>
<li><a href="plugins.htm">Plug-ins</a></li>
<li><a href="plugin_dependencies.htm">Plug-in Dependencies</a></li>
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<p class="style2">Plug-in Development Perspective</p>
<p>The <strong>Plug-in Development</strong> perspective is designed to support efficient development and integration of plug-in projects. Its also adds the <strong>Plug-ins</strong> and <strong>Error Log</strong> views which are particularly useful. </p>
<p>The perspective can be opened via <a class="command-link" href='javascript:executeCommand("org.eclipse.ui.perspectives.showPerspective(org.eclipse.ui.perspectives.showPerspective.perspectiveId=org.eclipse.pde.ui.PDEPerspective)")'>
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<strong>Window &gt; Open Perspective &gt; Other... &gt; Plug-in Development</strong>
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