Eclipse building the worskpace blocks the other eclipse operations

While using eclipse a couple of days back i observed that while building the workspace eclipse 开发者_StackOverflowblocks other operations such as run , maven build etc and puts them on hold for quite some time. Is there a work around for this delay ??

In general, no. As builds, etc. modify the Eclipse file system (resources), it is dangerous to run other tasks that could read the file system (it could be inconsistent, etc.).

The only thing to do is to make sure that the build happens fast (enough). For that, incremental build needs to be enabled (that is fast even for a large number of projects in my machine), and/or the number of open projects has to be limited.