Eclipse won't check for errors in my code (JEE)

Question

I have been trying to use Spring in my JEE projects and while everything will compile just fine for some reason Eclipse just refuses to do any sort of live error checking like it normally does. you know like underlining a line of code that is totally wrong for ex:

System.BananaBoat.SetSail();

Obviously this class doesn't exist but Eclipse isn't throwing any sort of error at all. It just lets me do it. Is there something I need to enable to make sure that this is getting tested? Is this related to the incremental compiler?

Any insight on this would be great. Feels like being back in the stone age without this.

Answer 1

Make sure that the automatic build isn't turned off.

Answer 2

Check if the project has any problems in the "problems" fast view. Sometimes, Eclipse refuses to build automatically if there is a problem such as a cyclic module dependency, or some required .class file being referenced indirectly.

Here are some links:
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/253357/eclipse-problems-view-not-showing-errors-anymore http://stackoverflow.com/questions/156745/best-practices-for-eclipses-problems-view http://help.eclipse.org/help32/index.jsp?topic=/org.eclipse.platform.doc.user/concepts/cprbview.htm