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A Maven project outside the opened root can be linked explicitly: Add Maven Projects accepts an external pom.xml, and Project Structure › Modules › Import Module from Existing Sources (also on the project root's context menu) imports a directory with a pom.xml. The linked project becomes an extra project-tree root and an independent Maven project with its own working directory and wrapper; links are stored as canonical paths, survive reloads and reopening, and unlinking removes only the association. The opened project's jdtls gets the external directory as an extra workspace folder, keeping automatic discovery under the opened root. Neither POM is edited. Merged with main's aggregation fix: a project an aggregator lists later becomes its module only when the aggregator lies inside the opened root and is not on the same chain, so a linked sibling does not take over the opened project. Closes #2884 Co-authored-by: hwlLL0703 <94688503+hwlLL0703@users.noreply.github.com>
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Opening freqtrade (Python, ~770 files) with warm caches, median of 5 runs:
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| Ready (CPU settled) | 1.1 s | 13.2 s |
| Memory (USS, all processes) | 169 MB | 2011 MB |
| CPU time until ready | 2.4 s | 47.9 s |
| Idle CPU | 4 % of a core | 7 % of a core |
| Quit | 0.3 s | 5.9 s |
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