typing constantly trigger validating documents/building workspace job

[testforstephen]

In VS Code editor, just typing an empty line, the status bar constantly show validating documents, publish diagnostics, building workspace. Reference the UX of Eclipse, typing there doesn't trigger building unless you save the file. So building workspace looks like an unnecessary step during editing. But if you trigger save action, it should be triggered if auto build is enabled.

[testforstephen]

Another complaint from the user is the status bar continuously flashes an update when typing code. Validating Documents, Publishing Diagnostics are very specific technical implementation, the user doesn't need the details of this level when typing code.

[snjeza]

So building workspace looks like an unnecessary step during editing. But if you trigger save action, it should be triggered if auto build is enabled.

The issue happens because the document/didChange, document/didOpen and document/didClose commands run as a workspace runnable. The workspace runnable schedules AutoBuildJob. AutoBuildJob fires the PRE_BUILD and POST_BUILD events although a workspace build isn't called. See AutoBuildJob.doBuild(IProgressMonitor). That's way you can see the "Build Workspace" message in the status line although a workspace build isn't called.
In my opinion, this issue is an Eclipse upstream issue.

In VS Code editor, just typing an empty line, the status bar constantly show validating documents, publish diagnostics, building workspace

You can disable these messages with the following property:

"java.progressReports.enabled": false,

[snjeza]

I have created https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=549500

[Eskibear]

Same here for me...

In VS Code editor, just typing an empty line, the status bar constantly show validating documents, publish diagnostics, building workspace

I've been using VSCode to edit Java code for a while, these messages constantly update the status bar as long as I'm typing. The problem is, these messages are providing no help but distracting me from coding.

For the upstream issue, is there any update?
Is it possible to do some improvements on this extension's side, to filter out the distracting messages by default?