I have been using Eclipse as my main code editor for some time now. I have started to really like it as a development environment. Eclipse is very flexible and adaptive to your needs. To illustrate this, I wanted to integrate FTP into eclipse. I wanted the ability to right click a file in the navigator and upload the file to my remote server. I found this with the ESFTP plugin for eclipse. One thing I don’t like is that you have to use sFTP. (I guess life could be worse!)
It’s as easy as unzipping the files from their sourceforge page into you plugins directory and then restarting eclipse. The options to configure it cam be found under the properties menu for each project you have.
Hands down, this is going to speed up my development time. I should make more posts about using eclipse to build the newest version of notPopular.com
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Thanks for the comments on esftp, it’s great to see that whilst there are problems with it (I should know, I’m the developer of it) it still comes in useful.
Sorry that I cannot spend more time on it to be honest, but I’m bloody busy, I always think that I should spend more time, the problem is, finding the bloody stuff, it’s harder than gold!
thanks again
christopher thomas (esftp developer)
I really love the hot key commands to upload files to my server.
The biggest thing i would like to see is ftp settings for each project. I do a lot of web development, and each project I work on is a different site.
Thanks for all your work on this
To be honest, after having SVN & Ant, I do not use FTP client anymore. I have realized that I used ftp last time 2 months ago and I have a Filezilla installation for emergencies.
Josh, you can set the FTP settings per project. Just right click on the project -> Properties .. you will find an ESftp setting in the properties list.
And I am not sure why you think you have to use sFTP. In the protocol dropdown you can chose FTP. Although I have never used it.
Christopher! Thanks so much for this plugin! I have been using it for more than 2 years on a daily basis!
The only thing I would like is an option to turn off allowing to upload complete folders. Sometimes the focus is on the File Explorer view, I press ctrl+alt+s, thinking I am uploading the file I am editing, and it starts uploading my whole project. Cancelling is not working, I have to kill all of Eclipse to stop the upload.
Thanks to T for his explanation on the ESftp configuration at project level
I was looking for this since months
I agree this plugin is really convinient
I use for it for years with PDT and it’s really usefull