Wednesday, January 30, 2008

Ignore target folders in eclipse

In Eclipse when you press Command-Shift-R (Open Resource), you end up seeing the same resource a few times -- when it e.g. gets copied into a location in the workspace by your build tool (e.g. maven, ant).

I was looking for a solution for some time now and way playing with working sets for this purpose.
Rob Mayhew obviously has one:
http://robmayhew.com/eclipse-ignore-folder/

Now the "only" thing left to do is to mark those target directories as derived -- after each clean up of those folders.

Luckily there is a project dash in Eclipse that can use javascript to do this.
Someone on the net even wrote the right script

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