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Based on some of the bugs I was able to find like
https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=104191 it seems that
StickyViews were created to give the appearance of the perspective being
shifted over ... they're supposed to be "outside" the perspective.
That being said (if you sift through bugzilla) sticky view still have
some behavioural problems :-)
It seems that the proper thing for your application to do is to open the
sticky view itself on startup at some appropriate point (sticky views
are "outside" the perspective, so you can't tie them in there).
Not a very satisfying answer, but it appears that's the sticky view intent.