Skip some file during compilation Eclipse

Question

Is there any way to skip some Java files when compiling under Eclipse?

Answer 1

Remove the class from the build path. You can do this for a single file or group of files by selecting them in the Project Explorer, then right click → Build Path → Exclude.

Answer 2

You can always exclude the item from being built. Right click on the file and go to build-path. Then click exclude.

Answer 3

Delete (or move) them. It can't compile what isn't there ;)

Note: Other forms of removing the content you don't want compiled also work.

Answer 4

This page should help you. If you wish to remove a file from compilation you can delete it, as cdeszaq suggested, or you can change the extension of it(For example if you have test.txt changing it to test.txtz would pretty much make it un-openable)

Answer 5

There's another way to do it. I discovered it by first using the Build Path -> Exclude option in other answers, as Eclipse said something about configuring filters.

Right click the project -> click Properties -> click Java Build Path -> click Source tab -> select ProjectName/src -> click Edit... (or double click Excluded) -> add an Exclusion pattern like com/blah/blah/blah/, potentially with wildcards.

It looks like the wildcards are your standard * and ?, but they also have **, which appears to be for wildcarding any number of folders, which must imply that * and ? are for only wildcarding a single file/folder name.