This page will help familiarize you with the Eclipse Workbench. To get started, read the sections below and click on the related links. Installed Features To find out more about the features installed in your workbench, choose Help > Welcome... and select the feature you are interested in. Perspectives, views and editors 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. Configuring your perspectives 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 Window > Reset Perspective. 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 Window > Customize Perspective... . A view can additionally be converted into a Fast View by dragging it to the shortcut bar (at the far left of the window). Join a CVS team To join a CVS development team, open the CVS Repository Exploring perspective. Next, specify the location of your CVS repository. To do this, choose New > Repository Location... 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. Select a module and choose Checkout as Project from the context menu. This will checkout the module from the CVS repository and create a project by that name in your workspace. Running an Ant Buildfile To run an Ant buildfile, click on Run > External Tools > External Tools.... Select Ant Build as the launch configuration type and click New. Identify the buildfile in the Location field and then click Run. Learn more To learn more you can browse the Workbench User Guide. Browse the External Tools and Ant Icons section to recognize the various External Tools and Ant elements.