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I have a lot of projects in eclipse and quite a few classes and other files. Frequently I know the class by name or the filename I need to open but just navigating to the file in a big pain. The java browsing perspective is cool but still if you have a lot of different projects its not very easy. Here is what I do.

You can look up the any class using the 'Open Type' dialog. You can use the keyboard shortcut Ctrl + Shift + T  to call this dialog in any java perspectives. This is not accessible using the shortcut in non java perspectives. This gives a dialog as show below. You can also use the wildcards to search.

The same way you can look up any resource using the 'Open Resource' dialog. This is activated by the shortcut Ctrl + Shift + R in all perspectives.