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Bug 361236

Summary: [package explorer] Option to show classpath container entries sorted
Product: [Eclipse Project] JDT Reporter: Darren Bell <djb.bell>
Component: UIAssignee: JDT-UI-Inbox <jdt-ui-inbox>
Status: CLOSED DUPLICATE QA Contact:
Severity: enhancement    
Priority: P3 CC: daniel_megert, igor
Version: 3.6   
Target Milestone: ---   
Hardware: PC   
OS: Linux   
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Description Darren Bell CLA 2011-10-18 07:02:20 EDT 
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We have a project with hundreds of libraries listed under "Maven Deependencies".  If this list was sorted it would make reviewing/finding these deps sooo much easier.

This isn't a big problem, more of a nice to have.

Reproducible: Always
Comment 1 Igor Fedorenko CLA 2011-10-18 07:28:39 EDT 
Actual order of entries in "Maven Dependencies" classpath container, or any other classpath container for that matter, affects compilation results and cannot be changed without introducing possibility of inconsistent compile results inside IDE and during command line build. So the only correct solution is to change display order of classpath container entries (and most likely make the order user configurable), which to the best of my knowledge would require changed to JDT. Moving to JDT for consideration.

@Darren you can use POM editor "Dependency Hierarchy" page to see project dependencies in sorted order, filter them and see the reason why any given dependency is used for the project. Highly recommended.
Comment 2 Dani Megert CLA 2011-10-18 11:13:04 EDT 

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 223318 ***