Tigerstripe Workbench Perspective

In Eclipse, a perspective defines the initial set and layout of project views in the workbench window. Typically, plug-ins to Eclipse contribute their own perspective to group and organize functionalities of the product.

Tigerstripe Workbench however, contributes a specific Tigerstripe perspective, capturing the actions, views, and layout required to accomplish all the tasks related to designing, documenting, and generating Service Contracts. Through this perspective, you can create, edit, and publish Service Contracts using Tigerstripe.

To open a Tigerstripe perspective:

1. Open Eclipse.
2. Click Window and select Open Perspective
3. Click Tigerstripe. The Tigerstripe perspective opens.

The Tigerstripe perspective contains the usual components of an Eclipse perspective, including the following:

• The Tigerstripe Explorer, which presents an outline of all the artifacts, files, and descriptors contained within a Tigerstripe project.
• A set of Form-based Editors, which allow you to specify all the details of any Tigerstripe artifact included in a project.
• A Project Auditor, that continuously audits all open Tigerstripe projects in the workspace for errors. Errors are signaled in the usual Problem view of Eclipse.

The Tigerstripe perspective is associated with Tigerstripe projects and is automatically started whenever you open a Tigerstripe project. However, you can open the Tigerstripe perspective at anytime by completing the following steps:

1. Click Window and select Open Perspective.
2. Click Tigerstripe.

This will restore your current Eclipse layout for the Tigerstripe perspective.