Have you ever opened an Eclipse-based product and not known where to start?  Does "workspace" sound more like a fancy term for your office than the directory used to manage your resources in Eclipse?  Do you look out your window to find a "view"?  If so, this session will help you learn the basics about how to use the workbench in IBM WebSphere Development Studio Client for iSeries.  This product is built on the IBM Software Development platform, which brings you the full capability of the Eclipse open source platform.   The combination of the workbench and this platform provides a number of number of powerful features to help improve your productivity that are often overlooked.  

This session offers straightforward explanations and examples that tell you just about everything you need to know about the worbench, but didn't know to ask! For application developers working with Eclipse-based products, we'll cover a broad range of topics from simple user menu actions to navigating between perspectives and working with views.  After you've got the basics down, learning how to exploit the specific iSeries features [of the WebSphere Develoment Studio Client] such as the Remote Systems Explorer will be a breeze!  If you want to learn how to get the most out of the workbench come find out about the tips and tricks that give useful ways to increase your productivity.