FTP support in Eclipse
May 17th, 2008This one is very handy for me! I work almost constantly in Eclipse to create PHP/HTML/CSS/Flex/AIR/… apps.
Today I’ve found a solution for my FTP issues. Although Cyberduck is a great FTP-client, it doesn’t come even near Transmit, but Transmit isn’t free, unfortunatly.
I’ve tried to use FireFTP, but I don’t like it very much, because it ain’t easy to edit files straight on the remote server.
But since a few moments ago I’m able to use Eclipse as FTP-client! With remote editing included!
I stumbled upon a chat log with a link to the Target Management homepage.
The easy explination (this is only been tested for Eclipse Europa):
Go to the “Find and Install …” option in the Software Updates menu from your Eclipse installation.
Choose “Search for new features to install”.
Select “Europa Discovery Site”.
Then select the “Remote System Explorer End-User Runtime” in the “Remote Access and Device Development”-tree.
After it’s installed, go to Window > Show View > Other … Then select the “Remote Systems”-view from the “Remote Systems”-folder.
Now you’re able to setup a new remote location, aka your ftp server. :)
aravind
October 19th, 2008 at 2:39 am
Thanks for the tip. This is exactly what I was looking for. It works with eclipse 3.4.1 also.
jupi
April 7th, 2009 at 12:06 pm
Thanks a lot. I was looking for this (how to set up ftp support for eclipse) more than half an hour and finally found here :)
Luke
April 17th, 2009 at 1:45 pm
Thanks for this info, I’ve tried a couple of Eclipse FTP plugins and this is very simple and does exactly what I need Thanks.
Zip
July 23rd, 2009 at 9:25 am
Thanks for the info.. really saved a lot of headaches
Rob Haag
October 6th, 2009 at 11:21 pm
Works great (so far for the first 5 min. :-)…Thanks for point this out, I’d been meaning to (seems I say that a lot lately) get this working too. Theres just so many tools/resources today… fun and productive…and cool! Thanks BTW: It’s working (just as you described) in Eclipse w/ PDT ver. 3.5 Galileo
Matt v
October 12th, 2009 at 4:59 am
perfect
matt
October 27th, 2009 at 12:16 pm
Excellent work bro appreciated .. i was so much lost … this worked like a charm … i was used to PSPAD’s Ftp it works much similar to that ..Thanks for the work done by posting here
Burma Weikle
March 21st, 2010 at 6:01 pm
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Namagderaz
March 30th, 2010 at 10:18 pm
Fantastic!!! Why Eclipse make simple things became a real nightmare?!!!
Brad
June 5th, 2010 at 8:32 am
Thanks, this is exactly what I was looking for!
cheer
Jon Cavanaugh
September 9th, 2010 at 6:44 pm
I would like to add that the site URL was not automatically in my eclipse, the URL to add for installing the software was: http://download.eclipse.org/releases/europa/
Thanks for the post!
Jon C.
Abi
January 8th, 2011 at 6:35 pm
This is just perfect. Thank you very much.
Nate
June 11th, 2011 at 12:42 am
This works with Helios also. Ignore the warning you get upon installation. Everything works perfectly. :) Thank you so much!
Mark Moriarty
June 22nd, 2011 at 12:23 am
Thank you!
I’m using Eclipse SDK 3.5.2 on Ubuntu 11.04
Like Jon C, I didn’t find the Europa Discovery Site in the available options, so I pasted http://download.eclipse.org/releases/europa/ directly into the url field, searched for “remote”, ticked to install End User Runtime and Extender SDK.
Everything now working flawlessly.
selenga
July 3rd, 2011 at 12:02 am
Excellent and perfect work !.. Thank you very much..
Eclipse Helios Version: 3.6.2
Build id: M20110210-1200
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Loralon
December 1st, 2011 at 10:39 am
Very good post and directions. It is also working for me without any issues on Eclipse 3.7.1 (Indigo).
Thanks for sharing.