Is there a way to hide Maven 2 “target/” folder in Eclipse 3?

Question

I\'m using maven 2.0.9 with Eclipse 3.3.2.

I\'m used to launching a fresh build once per day by a mvn clean install. Then, if I refresh my Eclipse project,

Answer 1

I had some issues because some solutions here only work for some views, so I made an illustrated summary.

_{Tested in Eclipse 4.4 (Luna), should work like this since 3.7 according to other answers here.}

Package Explorer

Package Explorer View Menu → Filters... → check Name filter patterns and input target.

Be careful, this will hide all folders and files named target, not just the default maven build directory! The Project Explorer view has a better option without this issue.

Project Explorer

Project Explorer View Menu → Custom View... → search for "maven" and check Maven build folder.

Checking this option hides the build directory as defined in the projects pom.xml configuration.