Getting Started with IBM Data Studio for DB2

1.4 Touring the Data Studio Client workbench
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The term workbench refers to the desktop development environment. This concept is from
Eclipse. If you are familiar with Eclipse, you may skip this section. 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.
Each workbench window contains one or more perspectives. Perspectives contain views
and editors and control what appears in certain menus and tool bars based on a certain
task or role. So you will see different views and tasks from the Debug perspective (for Java
debugging) than you will for the Database Administration perspective.
Let’s look at the Java perspective for fun.
One way to open a different perspective is to click the Open Perspective icon shown below
in Figure 1.16 and then select Java. An alternate way to open a perspective is to use the
main menu by clicking on Window -> Open Perspective -> Java.
Figure 1.16 – Opening up a different perspective
As you can see by comparing Figure 1.15 with Figure 1.17, the Java perspective has a
different task focus (Java development) than the Database Administration perspective. The
outline in this case, for example, would work with Java source code in the editor. The
explorer shows Java packages as opposed to database objects.