diff --git a/eclipse/src/plugin-resources/templates/classpath.jelly b/eclipse/src/plugin-resources/templates/classpath.jelly
index 65424a8a..cc00c2a1 100644
--- a/eclipse/src/plugin-resources/templates/classpath.jelly
+++ b/eclipse/src/plugin-resources/templates/classpath.jelly
@@ -124,6 +124,9 @@
       <j:when test="${eclipseDependency == 'true'}">
         <classpathentry kind="src" path="/${lib.dependency.artifactId}"/>
       </j:when>
+      <j:when test="${eclipseDependency == 'false'}">
+        <!-- ignore specific dependencies -->
+      </j:when>      
       <j:when test="${lib.dependency.groupId == 'junit'}">
         <!-- ignoring junit dependency as we've already created it -->
       </j:when>
diff --git a/eclipse/xdocs/changes.xml b/eclipse/xdocs/changes.xml
index 34e13406..ab02c7d5 100644
--- a/eclipse/xdocs/changes.xml
+++ b/eclipse/xdocs/changes.xml
@@ -25,6 +25,7 @@
   </properties>
   <body>
     <release version="1.8" date="In CVS">
+      <action dev="epugh" type="add" issue="MPECLIPSE-10" due-to="Thierry Lack">Set eclipse.dependency=false to explicity ignore dependencies in classpath generation</action>    
       <action dev="evenisse" type="fix" issue="MPECLIPSE-29" due-to="Marc-Antoine Garrigue">Fix classpath generation when tests are not present</action>
       <action dev="evenisse" type="fix" issue="MPECLIPSE-32">classpath includes must be relative directories</action>
     </release>
diff --git a/eclipse/xdocs/properties.xml b/eclipse/xdocs/properties.xml
index e5075e41..b78e70ae 100644
--- a/eclipse/xdocs/properties.xml
+++ b/eclipse/xdocs/properties.xml
@@ -127,6 +127,10 @@
          This indicates that the dependency is another project in the workspace. 
          Note that the name of the referenced project is the artifactId.
        </p>
+       <p>
+         The inverse also works.  If you have included extra jars that shouldn't be
+         in the eclipse classpath then you can set <code>eclipse.dependency=false</code>
+       </p>
     </section>
   </body>
 </document>
