Eclipse Navigate Menu

Navigating the Eclipse Workspace

The Navigate menu offers several options to help you quickly locate specific resources.

The Open Type, Open Type in Hierarchy, and Open Resource menu items are particularly useful.

Open Type

The Open Type menu item opens a dialog where you can search for Java type files.

You can enter a class name in the input field to search. The '*' symbol represents zero or more characters, and '?' represents a single character, allowing you to specify patterns. The dialog will display all matching patterns.

Select the file you are looking for from the list.

Eclipse will open an editor showing the selected type. If the source code cannot be displayed, the class file editor will show the bytecode of the selected type.

You can click the Attach Source button to view the source code corresponding to the class file.

The source code is located in the src.zip archive within the Java main directory.

Open Type in Hierarchy

The Open Type in Hierarchy menu allows users to view the inheritance hierarchy of a class in the Type Hierarchy view.

Selecting a specific class in the Type Hierarchy view will display its definition information, including its properties and methods.

Open Resource

The Open Resource menu is used to find files within the workspace.

The '*' symbol represents zero or more characters, and '?' represents a single character, allowing you to specify patterns. The dialog will display all matching patterns.

Select the file you want to open and click the OK button.