[news.eclipse.platform.rcp] Help with views not displaying

["jnorris" <james.norris@xxxxxx>]

In my RCP application I have 2 perspectives.  The initial perspective has 3 
views with 2 on the top side by side and one on the bottom.  The second 
perspective has a single editor and is opened programmatically by an action 
from a menu/toolbar selection.

The problem I am having is that the 3 views on the initial perspective 
sometimes do not appear when the application is started up (running as an 
eclipse product).  However, if I open the second perspective and then switch 
back to the first view all 3 views appear as expected.  When this problem 
occurs all I see is a single blank view when the application is started. 
Unfortunately, the problem is very inconsistent and thus will be pretty 
troublesome if it happens when the app is put into user's hands.  This 
problem is happening when running the product within the IDE and I'm really 
worried that it will also happen when the app is run by itself.

I have also observed that when the problem starts to happen if I clear the 
workspace before running the application the views appear again.

Is there a method to ensure that the views in the initial perspective get 
displayed?  Does anyone have any inkling as to what can cause this kind of 
behaviour?

BTW, the enviroment is eclipse 3.1.1 with BIRT 1.0.1.

Thanks,
Jim