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Eclipse Platform Components

In this tutorial, we will learn Eclipse Platform Components. It consists of several sub-components. All the sub-systems run on top of Eclipse platform runtime. Some of the important Eclipse components are as follows:

Eclipse Workbench
Eclipse Workspace
Eclipse Runtime

Eclipse Platform

Eclipse Workspace is a directory where we can store project files, source and other project artifacts. We need to choose an Eclipse workspace to begin Eclipse workbench.

Eclipse Workbench

Eclipse Workbench is the desktop development environment for developing and building applications. Workbench window contains Eclipse perspectives.

Eclipse Perspective

An Eclipse perspective contains several views, menus, toolbars and editors suitable for a specific purpose. For example, Java perspective is designed to support Java standalone applications. Java EE perspective is designed to develop enterprise Java applications. Some examples of Eclipse perspectives:

Java perspective
Java EE perspective
Debug
Hibernate
Git
JBoss
SpotBugs

Java Perspective

Java perspective is designed to support Java application development.

Eclipse IDE Workbench Components

Project Explorer

We can explore the project contents using Project explorer. We can browse project packages, files, Java source code, folders, properties and configuration, Maven dependencies, etc.

In the Project Explorer view, make sure the project and the source folder are expanded so you can see the packages. Expand the package to see the Java files contained in the package.

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