Eclipse provides a container for all development work performed with JBoss Developer Studio. It provides control over the application server, the applications on it and provides an interface through which you can develop your own applications.

Eclipse is started by double-clicking on the jbdevstudio executable in your installation directory.

Following this you will be asked to specify a workspace. A workspace is the location on your computer where your files relating to your Eclipse projects be stored. If you wish to change your workspace location after this step you can do so by selecting File → Switch Workspace → Other....

After selecting the location of the workspace, you will be greeted with the Welcome screen. This screen provides a few pathway options, including the Getting Started link, which will take you to a page that provides some JBDS documentation, an option to create a new project with the Create New... option and an option to skip straight to your Workbench.

Skipping straight to your workbench, you will see a screen with a number of default views and the JBoss Application Server listed in the bottom area of the interface.

In the bottom left hand corner of the screen is a button with an icon displaying a white column with a blue bar and a yellow plus sign beside it. Clicking on this button will open a menu listing a number of different views and windows.

The window that may be of most use to you can be found by selecting Other... → JBoss Tools Web → JBoss Tools Palette. This option opens a perspective that includes the tools provided by JBoss Developer Studio.

Refer to the Welcome to JBoss Developer Studio section of the Getting Started with JBoss Developer Studio guide for further details.