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    FTP support in Eclipse

    Saturday, May 17th, 2008

    This 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. :)