[news.eclipse.newcomer] part of an import statement not resolved

[rbelliott@xxxxxxxxxxxx (Ryan Elliott)]

This situation manifests as an import statement that is only underlined 
half-way.  For example the line:

import formatter.common.Parser;

In one of my projects, this line has "formatter" underlined in red, and 
when I "hover" over the word "formatter", the error message says "the 
import 'formatter' cannot be resolved".  As a side note, the code compiles 
without an actual error showing up in the "Problems" panel.  This only 
shows up in the actual source code editing window.  I have also noticed 
that in this case, the package "formatter" will not show up in the 
"packages" panel.  I have only seen this error happen when the package has 
no .java files in it.  I haven't found anything in the known bugs for 
Eclipse that says it cannot handle empty packages.

This may or may not help, but I have a very long classpathentry in my 
classpath file.  The reason for this is that there are a lot of files in 
my team's source tree that caused Eclipse to run out of memory the first 
time we tried to compile everything in one project.  Our solution was to 
edit the .classpath files of the individual projects, so that each 
application's project would only try to compile the source code it needed 
for that application.  As a result the .classpath file has lines like this:

<classpathentry 
including="/formatter/common/Parser.java|/communications/BasicKeyValue.java|/communications/GenericCommHandler.java|/communications/GenericCommHandlerKeyValue.java|formatter/ADisplay/ADisplayDriver.java" 
kind="src" path="source"/>

If you need more elaboration on this let me know.