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Bug 9348

Summary: Group jar files in packages view [package explorer]
Product: [Eclipse Project] JDT Reporter: Eric Jain <eric.jain>
Component: UIAssignee: JDT-UI-Inbox <jdt-ui-inbox>
Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE QA Contact:
Severity: enhancement    
Priority: P4 CC: webreg
Version: 2.0Keywords: helpwanted
Target Milestone: ---   
Hardware: All   
OS: All   
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Description Eric Jain CLA 2002-02-08 20:53:32 EST 
If a project uses many external jar files, the packages view tends to get a bit 
cluttered. A possible solution would be to group all jar files under one 
heading such as "external resources" or "libraries".
Comment 1 Erich Gamma CLA 2002-02-10 17:58:53 EST 
you can put the external JARs into a separate project and export them all. In 
this way you can achieve a kind of grouping.

For 2.0 we will only provide to hide external JARs - defer
Comment 2 Dirk Baeumer CLA 2002-07-25 06:06:48 EDT 
No plans to fix this for 2.1. Tagged as help wanted.
Comment 3 Dani Megert CLA 2002-12-10 02:15:32 EST 
*** Bug 27899 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 4 Dirk Baeumer CLA 2003-04-28 06:02:30 EDT 
Chaning state from assigned later to resolved later. Assigned later got 
introduced by the last bug conversion and is not a supported Eclipse bug state.
Comment 5 François Maurit CLA 2006-03-22 05:06:59 EST 
Any update on this? (It has been 3 years since last comment - surely 'later' cannot get much worse than that.)
Comment 6 Martin Aeschlimann CLA 2006-03-28 03:52:07 EST 
No commitment of this item yet. Workaround is to use user libraries (see Java preferences).
Artificial nodes are always a problem, that's why we hesitate to do this.
Comment 7 Martin Aeschlimann CLA 2006-08-21 07:04:39 EDT 
reopen: dup of bug 83389
Comment 8 Martin Aeschlimann CLA 2006-08-21 07:04:53 EDT 

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 83389 ***