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[IDEA 4.0] Favorite Feature = Package View IDEA 4 Package View My favorite feature of IDEA 4.0 is the package view. Since I keep my src and test trees separate, but their package structures identical, this is the view I've been longing for. Hopefully it's possible with Eclipse and I just haven't figured it out. What it does is allow me to see tests right next to my classes. In Eclipse, I have to constantly navigate between the two trees to edit tests and such.

Does this mean I like IDEA better than Eclipse? No, it simply means that I wish Eclipse had this feature, and I appreciate IDEA for adding it. Posted in Java at Jan 05 2004, 12:18:42 PM MST 4 Comments

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eh - dude ?! Window\Show View\Other\Java Browsing\Packages voila! Been there since begining of time.

Posted by xam on January 05, 2004 at 03:53 PM MST #

Packages is close; really, a combination of packages and members (from the Java browsing perspective) is what you need Matt. Unfortunately, packages is currently just a flat list, as is members (As of 2.1.2 anyway - I can check 3.0 when I get home).

Posted by R.J. on January 05, 2004 at 04:12 PM MST #

Not quite xam - I want it on the left, and not all the packages, just the ones for the current selected project. Ideally, there would just be a "collapse packages" option in Package Explorer. Instead of showing "src/ejb" and "test/ejb", it would just show "org.appfuse.persistence".

Posted by Matt Raible on January 05, 2004 at 05:02 PM MST #

Matt, I think Packages + Types views together should be ok. You can switch off synchronization with the editor and enable a working set to show up only nedded packages. However I would agree with you that it would be nice to have an option to collapse source folders into the same hierarchy. Why don't you submit a enhancement request into Eclipse bugzilla?

Posted by eu on January 05, 2004 at 09:09 PM MST #

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