[news.eclipse.newcomer] Re: Compiling without running

[Michael Stather <kontakt@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Jeff Myers wrote:

> Michael Stather wrote:
>> Where can I turn that feature off? And can I compile manually?
>> 
>> Tanks in advance for your help :)
> 
> You can disable auto builds by unchecking Build Automatically from the
> Project menu.  After that, you can build your project via the Project
> menu.  However, disabling the automatic builds will disable a
> significant portion of Eclipse's Java tools functionality - do you have
> a particular reason why you want to build manually?  The normal way to
> use Eclipse is to rely on its builds unless you have a special build
> process requiring Ant or other processing steps.
> 
>   - Jeff
OK I just understood the benefits of save->compile.

Thanks