SyntaxFix

[eclipse] Disable building workspace process in Eclipse

Building workspace is about incremental build of any evolution detected in one of the opened projects in the currently used workspace.

You can also disable it through the menu "Project / Build automatically".

But I would recommend first to check:

  • if a Project Clean all / Build result in the same kind of long wait (after disabling this option)
  • if you have (this time with building automatically activated) some validation options you could disable to see if they have an influence on the global compilation time (Preferences / Validations, or Preferences / XML / ... if you have WTP installed)
  • if a fresh eclipse installation referencing the same workspace (see this eclipse.ini for more) results in the same issue (with building automatically activated)

Note that bug 329657 (open in 2011, in progress in 2014) is about interrupting a (too lengthy) build, instead of cancelling it:

There is an important difference between build interrupt and cancel.

  • When a build is cancelled, it typically handles this by discarding incremental build state and letting the next build be a full rebuild. This can be quite expensive in some projects.
    As a user I think I would rather wait for the 5 second incremental build to finish rather than cancel and result in a 30 second rebuild afterwards.

  • The idea with interrupt is that a builder could more efficiently handle interrupt by saving its intermediate state and resuming on the next invocation.
    In practice this is hard to implement so the most common boundary is when we check for interrupt before/after calling each builder in the chain.

 

Examples related to eclipse

• How do I get the command-line for an Eclipse run configuration? • My eclipse won't open, i download the bundle pack it keeps saying error log • strange error in my Animation Drawable • How to uninstall Eclipse? • How to resolve Unable to load authentication plugin 'caching_sha2_password' issue • Class has been compiled by a more recent version of the Java Environment • Eclipse No tests found using JUnit 5 caused by NoClassDefFoundError for LauncherFactory • How to downgrade Java from 9 to 8 on a MACOS. Eclipse is not running with Java 9 • "The POM for ... is missing, no dependency information available" even though it exists in Maven Repository • The origin server did not find a current representation for the target resource or is not willing to disclose that one exists. on deploying to tomcat

Examples related to workspace

• Jenkins Pipeline Wipe Out Workspace • How to change workspace and build record Root Directory on Jenkins? • Eclipse Workspaces: What for and why? • The cause of "bad magic number" error when loading a workspace and how to avoid it? • Clean out Eclipse workspace metadata • Eclipse: Error ".. overlaps the location of another project.." when trying to create new project • Eclipse - "Workspace in use or cannot be created, chose a different one." • Create a new workspace in Eclipse • How to force Eclipse to ask for default workspace? • Disable building workspace process in Eclipse