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Bug 94463

Summary: Allow folding of libraries in Package Explorer view
Product: [Eclipse Project] JDT Reporter: Daniel Dickman <didickman>
Component: UIAssignee: JDT-UI-Inbox <jdt-ui-inbox>
Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE QA Contact:
Severity: enhancement    
Priority: P3 CC: danny
Version: 3.1   
Target Milestone: ---   
Hardware: PC   
OS: Windows XP   
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Description Daniel Dickman CLA 2005-05-10 14:26:40 EDT 
I have a project with about 30 libraries. Usually I don't care to see all 
these libraries in the Package Explorer because my daily focus is on the code 
I am writing. When I have a large number of projects, each of which uses a 
large number of libraries, it takes me a long time to scroll up and down 
between projects. It would be nice if I could fold all the libraries to hide 
them away when I'm not looking at them (which is most of the time).
Comment 1 Martin Aeschlimann CLA 2005-05-11 03:08:34 EDT 
You could create a user library (Build Path -> Librararies -> Add Library, User
Library) to contain all your archives. This would be shown in the package
explorer as a single node with archives as children.

The other possibility is to turn on/off the 'referenced libraries' filter in the
package explorer.

The third possiblity with 3.1 is to create two Java working sets: One with only
the libraries and one with the rest. Then change to the working set mode of the
package explorer.
Comment 2 Daniel Dickman CLA 2005-05-11 13:17:37 EDT 
Reopened this one, because none of the options work for me. Rationale below.

The user library option only lets me pick libraries from the file system. I 
want to be able to pick the jars from my project workspace instead.

Turning on the 'referenced libraries' filter only hides the 'JRE System 
Library and any other libraries referenced from another project, but does not 
hide most of the libraries I'm looking at (they are under project/lib/*.jar 
and are not referenced from anywhere).

For the third option, do you mean that I should create two separate projects, 
one of which contains only the libraries and the other of which contains the 
rest of the code? This wouldn't work well when we have some developers using 
unix and intellij in addition to eclipse.

All I want is one node under my project called "Libraries" under which I'd 
have everything that is currently shown in: Properties -> Java Build Path -> 
Libraries and which I can expand or fold at will.
Comment 3 Martin Aeschlimann CLA 2005-05-11 14:28:52 EDT 
can't do for 3.1
Comment 4 Danny Yates CLA 2005-09-27 09:36:46 EDT 
Is there any chance of re-opening this fr the 3.2 timeframe? (Or 3.1.1 but I 
guess it's too late for that.)

I also have lots of projects, each of which uses lots of JARs from 
<project>/lib/.../*.jar, and would like to hide them, or fold them under an 
additional tree node.

An alternative solution would be to allow project-level libraries which can 
include JAR files relative to the project, rather than absolute file-system 
paths.
Comment 5 Markus Keller CLA 2007-06-20 06:12:43 EDT 
Dup of bug 83389.
Comment 6 Markus Keller CLA 2007-06-20 06:13:08 EDT 

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