diff --git a/setup-eclipse.sh b/setup-eclipse.sh
index de92c3493d07eef70b89d8f721153bd134490fad..e3ba8f69781eaa82f341fd50d119b57635a46c66 100755
--- a/setup-eclipse.sh
+++ b/setup-eclipse.sh
@@ -47,3 +47,8 @@ cat >>"$d/.classpath" <<EOF
 	<classpathentry kind="output" path="target/bin"/>
 </classpath>
 EOF
+
+mkdir -p $d/.settings
+cat >$d/.settings/edu.umd.cs.findbugs.core.prefs  <<EOF
+excludefilter0=findbugs-exclude.xml|true
+EOF