Bug 28830

Summary:	Flexible projects cannot share output directory
Product:	[Eclipse Project] JDT	Reporter:	Craig Setera <craigsfnet>
Component:	Core	Assignee:	JDT-Core-Inbox <jdt-core-inbox>
Status:	RESOLVED WORKSFORME	QA Contact:
Severity:	normal
Priority:	P3
Version:	2.1
Target Milestone:	2.1 M5
Hardware:	PC
OS:	All
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Description Craig Setera

2002-12-23 09:45:22 EST

The new flexible projects structure is a great step forward in the Eclipse
platform.  Excellent work.  One use of such a structure is in a web application
development model.  In this model, it is desirable to target the web
application'w WEB-INF/classes directory as the output directory.  In addition,
it is desirable to target this directory for multiple projects.

Although the new flexible projects structure allows for this, the Java Builder
breaks this by cleaning the output folder on many builds.  By cleaning the
output folder, the result of one project's build will be lost when a different
project is built.

It would be helpful if the Java Builder was not quite so controlling of the
output folder.

Comment 1 Kent Johnson

2002-12-24 10:07:07 EST

There is an option to control this... it was added in the M4 build.

The workspace wide option is found at Windows -> Preferences -> Java -> 
Compiler -> Other : 'Allow to clean output folders for a full build'

A per project option can be found by examining any project's Properties -> Java 
Compiler -> Other : 'Allow to clean output folders for a full build'