I like the switch to <ignore/> as a temporary work around at least. I'm not opposed to a maven plugin myself, but I don't know enough about maven yet to have a well informed opinion.
I do my cTAKES development in a separate workspace; I see what a pain it would be to turn off Build Automatically in a shared workspace. -- James > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] > [mailto:[email protected]] > On Behalf Of Steven Bethard > Sent: Monday, October 08, 2012 3:10 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: Eclipse, Maven and JCasGen > > On Oct 6, 2012, at 8:53 PM, Steven Bethard <[email protected]> > wrote: > > If people are opposed to doing it the way m2e suggests (writing a > jcasgen-maven-plugin and a connector, as is done in my patch), then I > think the only alternative would be to use <ignore/> instead of <execute/> > so that JCasGen never runs in Eclipse. > > I've just confirmed that switching <execute/> to <ignore/> stops the > constant re-building. Of course, it also disables JCasGen generation of > Java sources, which you have to do manually (e.g. by running `mvn compile` > from the command line). > > Steve > > P.S. I also did a completely fresh install of Eclipse and the plugins, and > I still get the same non-stop "Compiling .../target/generated-sources/..." > messages.
