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Extending an Existing Perspective

This tutorial continues the 3 Example of creating a view tutorial, it assumes that a view and a plugin have both be created.

Declare Extension in plugin.xml:

Edit the plugin.xml file of your plugin. Add a extension to the org.eclipse.ui.perspectiveExtensions extension point. The following snippet of xml should be added to the plugin.xml file:

<extension
         point="org.eclipse.ui.perspectiveExtensions">
      <perspectiveExtension targetID="org.eclipse.ui.resourcePerspective">
         <view
               id="tutorial.view1"
               relationship="stack"
               relative="org.eclipse.ui.views.ResourceNavigator"/>
      </perspectiveExtension>
   </extension>

The extensions tab of the plugin.xml editor should now look similar to the following image:

Run Application

Create a new Application Launcher by doing the following:

Right click on your new plugin and select Run As > Eclipse Application.
Your view should open up and you can click you button (which does nothing currently).
Close the intro page

The workbench should now look similar to the following image: