Description Marc Mazas 2011-03-20 18:07:23 EDT

I use Helios / Maven 3.0.1 / m2eclipse 0.12.1.20110112-1712).
I want to put my target/classes in a ramdisk (VFreeSuite) (for build performance reasons).
I create a ramdisk partition (say B:).

On the Eclipse side, I can create, under project (say C:\MyProject, a target folder as a virtual folder (new folder / Advanced / 2nd choice), and classes as a linked resource to a folder in the ramdisk partition (new folder / Advanced / 3rd choice).

File .project contains a new section :
	<linkedResources>
		<link>
			<name>target</name>
			<type>2</type>
			<locationURI>virtual:/virtual</locationURI>
		</link>
		<link>
			<name>target/classes</name>
			<type>2</type>
			<location>B:/classes-ptvf</location>
		</link>
	</linkedResources>

File .classpath is not impacted.

Eclipse compiler will create classes in the ramdisk partition (B:/classes-ptvf).
It will not create any physical folder C:\MyProject\target.

But m2eclipse (I believe m2eclipse should do the job rather than maven and pass it to maven, like reading .project and setting the build.outputDirectory) will not use the target virtual folder and maven will create the C:\MyProject\target\classes folder and create classes underneath.

Could there be some magic for this request (I assume this is not a current feature and so not a bug) ?
Thanks in advance.