There are two ways.

1. Increase workspace history and derive from this list

You can derive from the workspace history list which workspace isn’t in there: that one will be the one currently active. This is the list you see when you got to File -> Switch Workspace.

Depending on how many workspaces you need, you might want to increase the size of the workspace history. You can configure this setting at:

Window -> Preferences -> General -> Startup and Shutdown -> Workspaces -> ‘Number of workspaces to remember’.

2. Show the current workspace in the titlebar

This one is obviously better as it requires no action on your part. Here’s a clear and simple post I found to solve this the right way.

Eclipse – Show Workspace Location in Title Bar

eclipse -showlocation -vmargs -Xmx700M

(those vmargs are optional and have nothing to do with showing the workspace.)

Thanks uhm… admin guy!

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Apparently, it has nothing to do with the source folder you see in the Project Explorer view, or the export settings in the Buildpath dialogs: instead you need to edit the Eclipse settings file “project-war\.settings\org.eclipse.wst.common.component” (viewable in the Navigator view) and modify the deployed source folders in there. Changes there do *not* reflect in the Project explorer (at least not with my version of Eclipse, Galileo). I’ve removed the test sourcefolder from there and everything was honky dory.

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<project-modules id="moduleCoreId" project-version="1.5.0">
  <wb-module deploy-name="foo-war">
    <wb-resource deploy-path="/" source-path="/src/main/webapp"/>
    <wb-resource deploy-path="/WEB-INF/classes" source-path="/src/main/java"/>
    <wb-resource deploy-path="/WEB-INF/classes" source-path="/src/main/resources"/>
    <property name="context-root" value="foo"/>
    <property name="java-output-path"/>
  </wb-module>
</project-modules>

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Make Eclipse ignore .svn directories

Window -> Preferences…, Java -> Compiler -> Building. Under “Output folder” add “, .svn/” to “Filtered Resources” (so that you get “*.launch, .svn/”).

It still works like a charm. Thanks Brian.

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Say you are working under some kind of account, for example some assigned number combination which you use to log into Windows or something. Mine recently was AA170738. Now say you are editing Java classes in Eclipse and generating comments with Eclipse. You might end up with something like this:

/**
 * @author AA170738
 *
 */

I Found this very annoying since it happened to me for every class I introduced and templates are supposed to save time. You could ofcourse turn it off entirely, Preferences->Java->Editor->Templates->uncheck @author, but I just wanted it fixed the right way.

Turns out Eclipse simply reads out the Java system property user.name. All we need to do then is boot Eclipse with an explicit system property. Like so…

eclipse.exe -vmargs -Duser.name=”John Doe”

Just change that in your shortcut and you’re set.

/**
 * @author John Doe
 *
 */

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