I happen to be a developer who works faster in the code than in a visual editor. I'm also a guy that virtually never uses the Windows explorer, prefering filename completion from a DOS shell command window for most everything. That's just me. I type faster than I can move the mouse. I like using things like our visual Struts diagrammer to get the basics setup and wired together correctly, but then I often want to just look at the XML structure of the struts-config.xml file from then on out.
One of the cool features of the JDeveloper 10.1.3 IDE is that for any given type of file, you can define an IDE-level preference as to which editor view you'd like to use as the default. In the screenshot below, I'm showing how I set the default editor to be the code editor for my struts-config.xml file. Of course, you can always flip to the visual diagram by just clicking the "Design" tab next to the "Code" tab, but by setting this preference in JDeveloper 10.1.3, by default this particular file type will always appear first in the code view. 
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