The Process Developer perspective is the default product perspective and contains the views, editor, menus, and toolbars that support the tasks for designing and generating a BPEL process definition.

When you first launch Process Developer, you see its default window layout, called a

perspective

. A perspective consists of views, editors, menus and toolbars that support a set of tasks.

A

view

is a unique window within a perspective, designed for one task, such as displaying an XML tree view of a file, listing errors or tasks, or showing object properties.

Process Developer contains two default perspectives:

Perspectives are versatile layouts that you can customize. See Customizing the Process Developer Perspective for details.

You can open and close perspectives using their icons on the Perspective Fast /View bar. The default position for the perspective bar is top right. As the following illustration shows, you can dock the bar in another location, shown here on the top left.