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Eclipse Tips

In order to clean up the project view in Eclipse, you can hide the files you don't need. First of all, make sure you're in the Java Perspective (Window ? Open Perspective). Then click the little (down) arrow in the top right corner of the Package Explorer pane. Select Filters, check the "Name Filter Patterns" and type "*.jar" (no quotes) in the text field. Then in the list of elements, scroll down and check Referenced Libraries. Click OK to continue.

Another useful Eclipse trick is to use abbreviated package names. You probably won't need it on this project, but its nice on projects where you're inflicted with super.long.package.name.syndrome. Go to Window ? Preferences ? Java ? Appearance. Check the "Compress all package names" checkbox and type "1." (no quotes) in the text field.

The visual designer default to many file types is a pain. It slows down eclipse and is completely unnecessary. To stop Eclipse from loading your files into split panes etc, try following.
Window ? Preferences ? General ? Editors ? File Associations
Some of the ones I changed for mine are:
*.xhtml (Default to HTML editor)
*.jsp (Default to JSP Editor)
*.xml (Default to XML Editor)
*.sql (Default to SQL Editor)

Also you can turn off some of default eclipse plugins to further speed up your eclipse. You can turn them off at
Windows -> Preferences -> General -> Capabilities (expand the big plugin categories)

You can also export/import code style formats under
Windows -> Preferences -> Java -> Code Style -> Formatter

Posted at 10:24PM Oct 03, 2007 by Ying Zhang in General  |  Comments[1]