I would like to share some PDT uses from a developer perspective. I use PDT for editing and source code management. These features are good enough, and will be more productive eventually.
However I felt lack of support for deployment features, all you get is external tools for local apache and basic page browsing. But Every time I modify a web page, I've to do rcp or use WinSCP to deploy that file back to the server and refresh page. Also, most of the times, It's essential to be connected with server on SSH connection to do regular fancy server stuff. WinSCP, although a great tool, isn't really "ergonomic excellence" and hence this tool switching becomes a painful activity.
It seems PDT is assuming that developers work only on development/staging machine and hence the lack of support for deployed web applications. Also based on my experience, I found PHP deployment to be very very different, fairly simple to be ridiculously near non-existence, compared to other "heavy-weight" web environment. Java, for example, has lots of "things" and steps to deploy a web app, but that's a different story...
I strongly recommend consideration for following features:
- Built in SSH command interface (remote terminal as console view ).
- Support for auto upload, or built in rcp (rsync builder - rsync as a part of auto-build would be a great feature!). Alternatively, this can be like MS Visual Studio style interface through HTTP interface, using HTTP methods (PUT etc.). Live Deployment feature is *essential*.
I'll post more uses of PDT as I go along using it.
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You should take a look at the target management effort from the DSDP project. It has some of the capabilities you need: http://www.eclipse.org/dsdp/tm/index.php
Have you tried Remote System Explorer (RSE) from the Target Management project? It should have the things you need, and even support direct editing of remote files: http://www.eclipse.org/dsdp/tm/
Hey Nirav,
Your comment about rsync is probably best handled at the EFS layer. There need to be more EFS providers, such as WebDAV, SSH/scp, and FTP.
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Please check out RSE
http://www.eclipse.org/dsdp/tm/
It does a lot of what you mentioned.
from what I understand those two items already exist within the
Remote System Explorer
which is part of the
target management of the Device Software Development Platform Project
from what I understand those two items already exist within the
Remote System Explorer
which is part of the
target management of the Device Software Development Platform Project
Guys, Thanks a lot.
I shall checkout RSE and other features of target management project.
Are you coming to Eclipse Forum India (http://www.eclipseforumindia.com/) in Bangalore, May 28-31 2007?
@Anusha
I would have loved to, but my schedule will not allow me to be there :(
@Anonymous
I don't know much about EFS, but I find RSE and other Target Management really cool.
I still believe rsync can be a real good feature for remote development.
I have a question for everyone posting. I am new to eclipse and it seems you can't use RSE and PDT together because you have to choose one or the other. How would you use RSE to have a remote sight within a PHP project?
All i could find about working with RSE inside projects is this:
http://wiki.eclipse.org/index.php/TM_and_RSE_FAQ#Working_with_TM_.2F_RSE_as_a_User
Think it says the projects have to implement EFS (Eclipse File System) to be able to do this. Can't get it working under PDT.
Link got messed up:
http://wiki.eclipse.org/index.php/TM_and_RSE_FAQ
#Working_with_TM_.2F_RSE_as_a_User
Thank you for that hint! I was wondering that PDT-Features didn't work on remote filesystems.
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