Hi,
im not sure if this is the right area to write 
this on. I recently decided to try Netbeans 4.0 
as opposed to Jbuilder which we've been using for 
a long time, but basically as there in no 
advanced file/package filtering it basically it 
makes Netbeans unusable with Clearcase. Our 
project vob structure is similar to
vob/project/src/com/company/projectA
vob/project/src/com/company/projectC
vob/project/src/com/company/projectD
vob/project/src/com/company/projectE
there are actually 20-30 projects on this vob, 
however to setup the environment in Netbeans i 
need to set the src as the root project, this 
will then take about half an hour to load up all 
the src as this vob is huge and i cant just 
include 1 package( if i change the src root to be 
relative, i.e. .\projectA, then i cant run the 
test cases as it wont resolve e.g 
com.ericsson.projectA.testcase1.
There should be options when setting the source 
directory to only include certain packages, or at 
least from the package view to remove packages 
from the project, but not physically remove them 
completly from the file structure.
I realise that file filtering can be applied in 
the System Settings, but this is way too 
cumbersome as i would need to specify every 
single directory/package apart from the one im 
using, and even at that it takes forever to 
reload the packages again afterwards as its trial 
and error

Also, i could hide the directory elements from 
the view in my clearcase but our project release 
process uses default config specs which prevent 
this from being viable. Jbuilder allows this 
functionality.

I would seriously consider using Netbeans if this 
was implemented, at the moment i will use it 
privately for small projects.

Anyway, hope this is implemented as it would make 
Netbeans a very usuable tool, im putting it as a 
defect because its effectively unusable