[Miranda Jones]

This is with Eclipse 3.2.1 and MyEclipse 5.1.

Whenever I have validation turned on, performance of HTML/JSP editing is terrible. Eclipse locks up for minutes at a time on very large documents and scrolling is very jerky on all documents. For example, earlier today, Eclipse kept locking up because at the top of a very large document I opened an <a href=””> tag and hadn’t closed it yet. So Eclipse kept chugging away while I was trying to type out the href attribute while 650+ lines of the document are marked as invalid because the closing </a> tag was missing. It took me a good 5+ minutes to type that tag out and scroll over horizontally to close it.

So the first thing I do for any project is turn off the validators, but I’ve not been having much luck getting them to stay off with MyEclipse 5.1.

I have tried:

• Overriding the validation preferences for the project in question and marking “Suspend all validators”
• Overriding the validation preferences for the project in question and unchecking every validator in the Manual and Build columns
• Marking “Suspend all validators” in the global preferences
• Unchecking every validator in the Manual and Build columns in the global preferences

Nothing has worked… my JSPs are still being validated and Eclipse is still locking up on large JSP documents. How can I get them to stop validating?

[Brian Fernandes]

Miranda,

Have you tried the “Excluded Resource” page?
Right click on the Project, select Properties. Then go to MyEclipse > Validation > Excluded Resources. Select the resources you wish to exclude from all validation.

Alternatively, you could right click a file or folder in the Package Explorer itself, go to the MyEclipse submenu and select “Exclude from Validation”. This option is also available in the Editor’s context menu.

Hope this helps, let us know if you require further assistance.

[Greg]

Try this…

– Uncheck the following option: Window > Preferences > MyEclipse > Files & Editors > Common Editor Preferences > “Report problems as you type”.

[Miranda Jones]

Thank you both!

Both suggestions worked. For now, I have turned the validators back on to see if I still have the performance problems, but I have kept “Report problems as you type” turned off.

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