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When I drag a view outside of the Workbench window, the view becomes a detached view.
The Eclipse help says (Workbench User Guide -> Tasks -> Working with views and editors -> Detaching views and editors): "To restore the view to be shown inside of the Workbench window, drag the view tab into the Workbench window."
With my configuration (Windows 7; 2 screens; pushing the maximise button maximises Eclipse in one of the two screens) this does not work.
I have to use "Windows -> Restore Perspective ..." to get the view back inside the Workbench.
Is there an other way for reattaching a detached view?
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Click the title bar of the view that you want to detach. Hold the mouse button down. Drag the view outside of the Workbench window and release the mouse button. You can also drag the view into the window of a previously detached view to have multiple detached views together.
Click on a views tab to drag it to another position. Eclipse not only enables you to arrange views as visible tabs. You can also arrange them as so called fast views. Per default fast views are located at the left side of the statusbar at the bottom of the screen.
In Eclipse, if the Project Explorer pane is not already open, click the Show View icon in the lower left corner of Eclipse, then click Project Explorer.
As per njol's answer above, once you have your tab detached (showing as floating outside of your Eclipse IDE), simply click on the tab (not on the title of detached tab window) and drag. Then you will see mouse cursor change showing you where you can drop it to attach the tab to IDE. 
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