Eclipse faster auto refresh

Question

I use Eclipse to run my application only. I use an external editor (Atom) for my main development. I turned on \"Refresh using native hooks or polling\" to have Eclipse refresh

Answer 1

There is no configuration that changes the operation of the polling refresh used on the Mac (org.eclipse.core.internal.refresh.PollingMonitor).

The refresh runs much quicker on Windows because it uses file system native hooks rather than polling.

Answer 2

(I am not on a Mac, so I can't test this for you.)

Zend have written a refresher for Eclipse that uses Java 7 new features.

https://github.com/zendtech/studio-workspace-refresher

There are others out there to (https://github.com/zch/AutoRefresher and https://github.com/psxpaul/EclipseJava7Refresher) but based on the age and source of the zend one it is where I would start.

Note that you have hit upon one of the biggest issues people have with Eclipse. The new (as of Oct 2015) Friends Of Eclipse funding is aiming to tackle some of these issues. This one has a bug you can track Bug 480551.