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Eclipse provides a lot of useful assistance to developers like the code completion, finding types or quick fix proposals. But if you have a large number of libraries in your projects these assistance can be a bit overwhelming. For instance you might be developing a web application but you might see Swing or AWT types in code assists. Eclipse provides a solution for this problem with Type Filters. Go to Window>Preference>Java>Type Filters and add the packages you do not want to see. You can add javax.swing.* and java.awt.*. Now these types will not bother you anymore. :-)