You can set up "linked folders" (the Eclipse term) by creating a new folder,
then checking advanced then selecting link to folder in the file system. I'd
advise creating & using a path variable like PROJECTS to specify the source
folder in other projects (so you can set up projects and check them into CVS
without hard coding your system's file paths...)
------------Original Message------------
From: "Gurkan, Ozzie (MAN-Corporate)" <Ozzie.Gurkan@xxxxxxx>
To: "'aspectj-users@xxxxxxxxxxx'" <aspectj-users@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, Jan-13-2004 12:25 PM
Subject: RE: [aspectj-users] Symbolic links for multiple module developmen
t
I
haven't seen any symbolic link setup, so, hopefully, someone can enlighten me
on using Eclipse to fulfill both the mulitple module and incremental
builds....
I
think the symbolic links in Eclipse are IDE specific and not related to
symlinks as in *nix.
Incremental compilation in ajc is a wonderfully weird thing.
Ajc will essentially "hold" all of your compiled classes in memory and only
weave those classes that need weaving upon update as opposed to reweaving
the entire class hierarchy every time you compile. IMO it's kind of
like real-time dependency checking. The downside of this is that it's
memory intensive. I'd recommend -Xmx512m for any substantial
project. The Eclipse structure view using incremental compilation is
off when doing this too. To get a 'real' view of the weaving you have
to rebuild the whole project, which could take some
time.
My
$0.02(U.S.): Try ajc from the command line in both modes to get a feel for
the difference in weaving time before you dive into the Eclipse
integration.
hth,
Keith Sader
Thanks,
Ozzie
Gurkan
