This page will help familiarize you with the Eclipse Workbench. To get started, read the sections below and click on the related links. 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. To open the CVS Repository Exploring perspective choose Window > Open Perspective > CVS Repository Exploring. 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, which you can check out as an Eclipse project. For an anonymous connection to the Eclipse CVS repository, choose New > Anonymous Repository Location to dev.eclipse.org.... 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 Checkout as Project from the context menu. This will checkout the module from the CVS repository and create a plugin project by that name in your workspace. Learn more To learn more you can browse the Workbench User Guide.