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title="Welcome to the Workbench"> | |
<intro>This page will help familiarize you with the Eclipse Workbench. | |
To get started, read the sections below and click on the related links. </intro> | |
<item><b>Create Java components </b> | |
To begin Java development, create a <action pluginId="org.eclipse.jdt.ui" class="org.eclipse.jdt.internal.ui.wizards.OpenProjectWizardAction">Java project</action>. Select the newly created project | |
and choose File > New > Other... . In the left column of the wizard, select Java and double | |
click on Java Package in the right column. Fill in the name of your package and click Finish. | |
To create a Java class, select the package in the navigator view and click on the | |
"Open the New Wizard" toolbar button (on the far left of the toolbar). This toolbar button | |
provides us with a quick alternative to File > New > Other... . Choose Java Class in the right | |
column of the category Java, and click Next. In the class wizard fill in the name of your class | |
and click Finish to create the class and start editing it.</item> | |
<item><b>Perspectives, views and editors </b> | |
A window contains one or more perspectives. A perspective consists of views (e.g. Navigator) | |
and editors for working with your resources. | |
The shortcut bar at the far left of the window allows you to open new perspectives and move | |
between perspectives that are already open. The perspective you are currently working with | |
is shown in the title of the window and in the shortcut bar as a pushed-in icon. | |
To open the Java perspective choose Window > Open Perspective > Java. </item> | |
<item><b>Configuring your perspectives</b> | |
You can move views and editors around the workbench by dragging their titlebars. You can | |
also add more views to your current perspective by using Window > Show View. | |
To reset the perspective to its original state, choose <action pluginId="org.eclipse.ui" class="org.eclipse.ui.internal.ResetPerspectiveAction">Window > Reset Perspective</action>. | |
Once you have arranged your perspective, you can save it using Window > Save Perspective As.... | |
You can customize the views, perspectives and New menu operations that show up for | |
your perspective. To do this choose <action pluginId="org.eclipse.ui" class="org.eclipse.ui.internal.EditActionSetsAction">Window > Customize Perspective...</action> . A view can | |
additionally be converted into a Fast View by dragging it to the shortcut bar (at the | |
far left of the window). </item> | |
<item><b>Join a CVS team</b> | |
To join a CVS development team, open the <action pluginId="org.eclipse.team.cvs.ui" class="org.eclipse.team.internal.ccvs.ui.actions.ShowCVSPerspectiveAction">CVS Repository Exploring perspective</action>. Next, specify | |
the location of your CVS repository. To do this, choose <action pluginId="org.eclipse.team.cvs.ui" class="org.eclipse.team.internal.ccvs.ui.actions.NewCVSRepositoryAction">New > Repository Location...</action> from the | |
CVS Repositories view popup menu. When the location wizard opens, fill in the details of your | |
CVS repository and click Finish. | |
A repository location will appear in the CVS Repositories view. Expand the location, then expand | |
the HEAD branch. You will see a list of the modules in that repository, which you can check out as | |
an Eclipse project. | |
For an anonymous connection to the Eclipse CVS repository, choose | |
<action pluginId="org.eclipse.team.cvs.ui" class="org.eclipse.team.internal.ccvs.ui.actions.NewCVSAnonEclipseConnection">New > Anonymous Repository Location to dev.eclipse.org...</action>. Select the newly created location | |
and expand HEAD. You will see the list of all the Eclipse modules, most of which are platform plugins. | |
Select a plugin and choose <b>Checkout as Project</b> from the context menu. This will checkout | |
the module from the CVS repository and create a plugin project by that name in your workspace.</item> | |
<item><b>Create Eclipse plug-ins </b> To create a new Eclipse plug-in, create a <action pluginId="org.eclipse.pde.ui" class="org.eclipse.pde.internal.ui.wizards.project.OpenProjectWizardAction">plug-in project</action>. You will be | |
able to choose between creating an empty plug-in project or starting with some useful content. | |
To have the content generated, select one of the available templates in the wizard. After the | |
project is created, the plug-in manifest editor will open into the <b>Welcome</b> page that | |
will tell you what you can do next. </item> | |
<item><b>Learn more </b> | |
To learn more you can browse the <topic id="/org.eclipse.platform.doc.user/toc.xml">Workbench User Guide</topic> or the <topic id="/org.eclipse.jdt.doc.user/toc.xml">Java Development User Guide</topic>.</item> | |
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