Typesafe-activator-eclipsified project has an endless list of dependencies in the scala ide

Question

I have imported an typesafe-activator-eclipsified project into scala ide and I end up with an endless list of dependencies/jars in my ide which I find a little awkward to work with (see below).

Is there a way to group all jars into one item (e.g. sbt dependencies) using eclipse?

Answer 1

It depends of which view you have opened.

• If it is in the Project Explorer view, there is no way to collapse the list.

  But it is possible to hide the libraries. In the Customize View dialog, uncheck Libraries from external:

  

• If it is in the Package Explorer view (which is a better view for Java/Scala projects), there is an option to collapse the referenced libraries, which is enabled by default: