title: Spring builder is slow in Eclipse - can I speed it up?
body: <p>When building our Java applications in Eclipse, the Spring builder is very slow and gives no status updates.</p>
  
  <p>Specifically, I start building a project, and Eclipse's Progress pane displays</p>
  
  <blockquote>
    <p>Invoking 'Spring Project Builder' on 'project name'...</p>
  </blockquote>
  
  <p>for multiple minutes at a time, with no additional details.</p>
  
  <p>I've already turned off the Spring AOP Reference Model Builder, and I just recently disabled the Spring project builder completely out of desperation.</p>
  
  <p>I'm just building and using these projects, not developing them, so theoretically they should compile fine - but this is our development branch, so I'd still like to keep Spring on in case there's a nasty reflection error somewhere.</p>
  
  <p>So, in order to keep using them, is there anything I can do to:</p>
  
  <ol>
  <li>Speed the Spring portion of the build?</li>
  <li>Display more detailed output during the Spring project building process?</li>
  </ol>
  
  <p><strong>Edit 2010-02-15 21:39 GMT:</strong></p>
  
  <p>I'm specifically referring to the Spring IDE plugin in Eclipse.</p>