The Bioclipse workbench

The Bioclipse workbench is made up of Views and Editors collected in Perspectives.

Perspectives

Perspectives are collections of editors and views that are grouped into a page on screen, e.g. the Chemoinformatics perspective in Bioclipse displays views and editors for working with molecules.

Views

In SWT, a View is a window that provides some graphical interface to present something for a user, and might let him interact with it. Examples are the BioResource Navigator, the Jmol View and the properties view.

Editors

An Editor is focused on letting the user edit an underlying model and follows the load-save cycle. An example is a simple editor for text-files, but could also be more advanced such as a graphical objects editor like the JchemPaint editor. It has in most cases actions like cut, copy, paste, undo, and redo.