title: Why are my Eclipse project builds so slow?
body: <p>We use Eclipse (Indigo, with STS).   Certain of our projects take inordinately long to build.  Often the progress indicator sticks on, say, 87%, for 30 seconds.</p>
  
  <p>I'm trying to find out what Eclipse is spending it's time on during the build cycle.  I hope to be able to optimize the build or disable components that are causing it to be so slow.  I'd like to see a log file saying ("compiling java code", "processing resources", etc).</p>
  
  <p>I've poked around the log files in the .metadata directory.  I've looked on the Eclipse site for tips.  I've tried using "-debug" when starting Eclipse.  I still can't find the information I'm looking for.</p>
  
  <p>Is there any way to get Eclipse to spit out a log of what activities it is spending its time on when it builds a project?</p>