How to close a ViewPart in Eclipse?

Question

I have a view in Eclipse (implemented by a class which extends org.eclipse.ui.part.ViewPart) which I need to close. I mean completely close, not just hide. I wa

Answer 1

I overridden dispose method from IWorkbenchPart and that worked. I had something like this in my overridden dispose method:

public void dispose() {
    super.dispose();
    IWorkbenchPage page = PlatformUI.getWorkbench().getActiveWorkbenchWindow().getActivePage();
    if (page != null) {
        IViewReference[] viewReferences = page.getViewReferences();
        for (IViewReference ivr : viewReferences) {
            if (ivr.getId().equalsIgnoreCase("your view id")
                    || ivr.getId().equalsIgnoreCase("more view id if you want to close more than one at a time")) {
                page.hideView(ivr);
            }
        }
    }
}