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(TODO)[http://www.eclipse.org/home/newcomers.Description php Eclipse is an open source community] with over 60 open source projects.[http://www.eclipse.org/projects/listofprojects.php These projects] can be conceptually organized into different "pillars" or categories such as: * [http://www.eclipse.org/home/categories/index.php?category=ide Languages' IDE]* [http://www.eclipse.org/eclipsert/ EclipseRT]* [http://www.eclipse.org/home/categories/index.php?category=frameworks Application Frameworks]* [http://www.eclipse.org/home/categories/index.php?category=modeling Modeling]* [http://www.eclipse.org/home/categories/index.php?category=enterprise Enterprise] == Concepts ===== Workbench ===The term [http://help.eclipse.org/helios/index.jsp?topic=/org.eclipse.platform.doc.user/gettingStarted/qs-01.htm Workbench] refers to the desktop development environment. The Workbench aims to achieve seamless tool integration and controlled openness by providing a common paradigm for the creation, management, and navigation of workspace resources.==== Resources ====[http://help.eclipse.org/helios/index.jsp?topic=/org.eclipse.platform.doc.user/gettingStarted/qs-01.htm Resources] is a collective term for the projects, folders, and files that exist in the Workbench. The navigation views provide a hierarchical view of basics concepts resources and allows you to open them for editing.=== Perspectives ===Each Workbench window contains one or more [http://help.eclipse.org/helios/index.jsp?topic=/org.eclipse.platform.doc.user/gettingStarted/qs-01.htm perspectives]. A perspective defines the initial set and layout of views in the Workbench window. Within the window, each perspective shares the same set of editors. Each perspective provides a set of functionality aimed at accomplishing a specific type of task or works with specific types of resources.=== Editors ===Most perspectives in the Workbench are comprised of an [http://help.eclipse.org/helios/index.jsp?topic=/org.eclipse.platform.doc.user/gettingStarted/qs-01.htm editor] area and one or more views.=== Views ===[http://help.eclipse.org/helios/index.jsp?topic=/org.eclipse.platform.doc.user/gettingStarted/qs-01.htm Views] support editors and provide alternative presentations as well as ways to navigate the information in your Workbench. == [http://www.vogella.de/articles/Eclipse/article.html Eclipse IDE Tutorial] ==Eclipse as a Java developmentIDE
