[news.eclipse.tools] Re: Duplicate files showing up in the bin folder

["Jeff McAffer" <jeff_mcaffer@xxxxxxx>]

Jim,

I suspect you are using your whole project as the source tree for your Java
project.  In a scenario where you have lots of different things (doc, notes,
...) mixed in with Java source, you would be better off using the "use
folders as source containers" option in the Java Build Path project
properties.  This allows you to define which parts of your project are
considered Java.  You will get better performance (the Java builder does not
have to pay attention to changes in all those extraneous resources) and the
non-Java resources will not appear in your output (bin) dir.

You sort of indicate that you are doing this already?  If so, I don't
understand.  I set my world up this way and the only non-JAva resources in
my bin are ones which are in the Java source dirs...

Jeff



<jamsden@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:9b88ph$c6t$1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> This was very surprising and somthing I think as a developer I should be
> responsible for. It put things is the bin directory like icon folders, my
> plugin manifest file, documentation, readme files, my design notes, etc.
> that clearly do not belong there. There's more to a project than just Java
> and .properties resources, but these don't necessarily need to be in the
> build path. I control the build path and source directories for everything
> else, why not these resources too?
>