Eclipse provides a very helpful feature for working with large projects. When you work on large projects you usually work on a small part of the project but you need to browse the whole source tree to find the files that you want. With Eclipse Working Sets you can create a set of artifacts (source files, configuration files,…) that will appear on some views, like the Package Explorer for example, hiding the rest of the project files.
For example, below I have created six Working Sets, five for the Spring sample applications and one for small a personal project. This setup allows me to browse the source of the Spring sample applications much more easily than when I have open the whole Spring Framework source tree.
Compare the two screenshots below:
The Package Explorer view showing the selected Working Sets
The Package Explorer view showing all projects
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