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

To close views, opened in different perspective, I overridden perspectiveDeactivated() of org.eclipse.ui.PerspectiveAdapter.

public void perspectiveDeactivated(IWorkbenchPage page,
        IPerspectiveDescriptor perspective) {
    super.perspectiveDeactivated(page, perspective);
    boolean myPerspective = MyPerspective.PERSPECTIVE_ID.equals(perspective.getId());
    if(!myPerspective) {
        //close Error Log view if it is opened in any perspective except My perspective. 
        IViewPart errorView = page.findView("org.eclipse.pde.runtime.LogView");
        if(errorView != null) {
            page.hideView(errorView);
        }
    }
}

My requirement was to close "Error Log" view. Above code can be modified to close any view.