Hiding Javascript validation errors in Eclipse Juno

So you are working on a project that includes some third party Javascript libraries, and your editor is Eclipse (I'm on Juno, but no doubt this issue affects Indigo or even farther back...) - anyhow, you import the .js file into your nice clean project and bang! The Problems tab shows errors in the script

For example, I get errors with libraries like jquery.mobile-1.3.1.min.js

Syntax error on token "Invalid Regular Expression Options", no accurate correction available

and handlebars.js (1.0.0.rc4) raises three

Syntax error on token ",", delete this token

Syntax error on token ")", ( expected

Syntax error on token "]", delete this token

and of course the problem is not "real" - it is just Eclipse's implementation of the Javascript validator.

So if you are a braver coder than me you could edit these files and fix the issues and hope that doesn't break any other part of the library :/  OR you can suppress the errors in Eclipse.

However you don't want to suppress all Javascript validation because then you wouldn't see your own errors! (And I make plenty).  So here is how to exclude just the third party libraries...

1. You want to keep all your third party librarries in a different path to your own .js files - I use a js directory, below that I have a lib directory where jquery et al go.  So thats a path like

<PROJECT>/WebContent/js/lib/*

2. Right click on the Project, navigate thus Properties -> Javascript -> Include Path.

3. Click the Source tab, expand your WebContent node so you can see "Excluded".

4. Select Excluded, click the Edit button, then add an Exclusion pattern of

 js/lib/*

then click Finish, OK, then do a new build if one doesn't kick off automatically.

Now you should have no more phantom error reports from the third party libraries.