I develop in PHP using Zend Studio - operating as an Eclipse plugin - has a really nice feature called "Automatic Upload" that can be configured on a per Project basis. This feature allows one to define a remote connection to a server for a Project, and also specify whether file copy to the remote server is "manual" or "on save".
We use the "on save" option extensively, as it allows us to edit a file via Eclipse, save it, and immediately see the file in play on our remote web server.
Specifically the functionality we are after is as follows:
Create or edit a local file in Eclipse
On Save of the local copy, automatically creates / updates the remote copy
On Delete of the local copy, deletes the remote copy
(cut/copy & paste behave in a conceptually equivalent way)
and
Manual batch "upload to remote" and "download from remote" menu options that allows full upload / download of all files as well as manual cherry picking of files to upload or download.
This feature is really nice and has very broad application so I expected it to be standard Eclipse functionality, however I have installed Eclipse Oxygen, and can't find it. I have subsequently done rather a lot of searching, and although there are some manual options that have appeared, the closest I can find to an automated copy equivalent is the Parallel Development Tools plug-in which provides a "Synchronized Project" option.
Synchronized Projects require git running on both local and remote and a git folder structure inserted into the Project. Additionally, hidden files are injected into every Project sub-folder.
The above renders Synchronized Projects too "heavy" and potentially problematic to manage for us.
So I am fairly desperately looking for an Eclipse Oxygen (or Neon is fine) plug-in that provides the functionality outlined above.
Your input is greatly welcomed. Thanks in advance!
While not exactly remote sync, a little lateral thinking has given me exactly what we need. What I did is as follows:
Remote (linux)
Install Samba
Use Samba to present the desired folder as a Windows share
Local (PC)
Windows File explorer
mapped the remote windows share to a local mapped drive
Eclipse
downloaded and installed the File Sync plug-in from Eclipse market place
right-clicked on my Project and selected Properties => File synchronisation, and configured the desired folders (setting the "remote" as the mapped drive)
and one final item (because we are mapping from a Windows local to a Linux remote) : Window => Preferences => General => Workspace Set "New text file line delimiter" to "Other => Unix"
And hey presto, everything is working 100%.
You can do this by a project builder Ant buildfile. Alternative, there are others build system that are implements the Eclipse project builder (to be executed on save), but which must be installed separately. You can also implement your own incremental project builder in Java.
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I've just upgraded Eclipse to Kepler and thought I'd try the built-in RSE as an alternative to the JCraft SFTP plugin for remote sync over SSH. I've exported my project with Review/Synchronise ticked and in the Synchronise panel I can see the files I want to export.
If I right-click a file I get a "Put" option to send the file but if I right-click a folder the option is not there.
How to I "put" a folder? There's no way in hell I'm going to do each file individually.
You might want to try PTP Synchronized project instead of RSE. It is mostly used for C/C++/Fortran development, but it can be used for any project for which you want to edit remote files. The feedback we got from PTP users is that the Synchronized projects work usually better (e.g. faster) than the RSE ones. In the future it is planned that you can use synchronized projects without having to install all of PTP.
I am building a new workspace in Ubuntu 12.10 with Eclipse Juno. I have configured my project, imported my files, established a local Git repo and synced it to a remote on GitHub. However, all my efforts to be able to upload files (php, html, css, and other website files) to servers have failed.
I have both Remote System Explorer (RSE) and Aptana Studio 3. Though I have successfully established connections both to localhost for testing and to my live webserver, none of my attempts to upload have succeeded.
Ideally, when I save any file in Eclipse, it would automatically be copied to my /var/www for my localhost test server. I have researched several sync options without success.
Additionally, I want to be able to use Ctrl+Shift+U or similar to upload the current file to my public server.
I have spent much of the last two days reading and researching, but have found minimal documentation, and blog entries are for obsolete versions.
I have no Deploy menu item, the Aptana Publish menu item is disabled, and if I use Eclipse's Export command from the right-click menu, and choose my localhost connection, I get error "Unable to use connection." This, despite being able to browse the contents in RSE's pane. When I try to export to the public server, the error is "This operation will remove previous team provider settings that were set for MyProjectName. Are you sure you want to do this?"
I am making the change to Eclipse for a more efficient workflow but so far it has cost me many days of frustration and I still can't upload a simple .html file?!
Ok, as I understand it, you want to copy a file at save and upload it via FTP, yes?
You should look into Ant. You can configure Eclipse to run an Ant script when you save or build a project.
How to copy files with Ant
Ants FTP task
How to get ant to run when building a project
this post might be helpful for you, if you use Eclipse RSE: How to synchronize files over FTP with Eclipse RSE?
Moreover they mention there some problems with jdk7 (for the older eclipse version). Check that too.
For the actions you to be performed automatically/on keypress, well for that I didn't find any quick solution.
I'm using Netbeans to manage a PHP projects in a proprietary setup. Files are on a web server and I use netbeans sFTP to download and auto-upload the files as I change them. It works great and I've read of others doing this. This takes care of creating/uploading files as I change / create them. It also seems to remove files if I delete them locally.
Now, enter source control (in my case Git, but for this the type shouldn't matter). My source control has to be on the web server. This is apart of the proprietary setup.
Lets say I switch branches (which would be done on the web server, to be clear), can I and how do I reconcile all the changes from the server? This would include removing files and folders locally that no longer exist in the version I'm working with. It also includes updating file contents for changes.
Now, I am aware of the "Download" function in netbeans. In netbeans, I right click on a folder structure or the project (in the "Projects" pane) and Netbeans will proceed to download all changes but it does not seem to remove local files and folders that no longer exist on the server..
You may have a look at this solved issue/enhancement. It will be in NetBeans 7.2 and currently it is part of nightly dev builds
I installed the RSE plugin in Eclipse intending to either use SSH or FTP to work with files on a remote machine. I set up both an SSH and FTP connection, but neither works.
For example, here is what happens when I connect using FTP:
As you can see, the directories on the server show up, but I can't do anything with them. No sub-folders are showing up and none of the files can be opened.
I'm completely new to Eclipse, (though certainly not new to working with FTP) so I really don't know what to do to get this working.
Also, is there any way to use this with the PHP perspective at all?
First, make sure you are using the latest update site for RSE. In Eclipse, go to Preferences >> Install/Update >> Available Software Sites and check that the update site for RSE is listed correctly and it is enabled. You can learn the latest update site from the Target Management Home Page (look for an update site link next to the latest release announcement).
Once you do that, you must also have the RSE Core plugin enabled in addition to SSH or FTP services. In Eclipse, go to Help >> Install New Software. Expand the TM and RSE Uncategorized category and install the RSE Core plugin.
You should now see sub-folders, and have more options on the remote folder right-click menu. You can, for example create a remote project or import remote folders into your current project.
Your problem might be associated with the "Show files only" checkbox. In the Remote Systems perspective right-click on "Sftp Files" and try to create a new connection. In the "File Filter" dialog window make sure the "Show files only" checkbox is not checked.
I'm using Eclipse PHP Development Tools. What would be the easiest way to access a file or maybe create a remote project trough FTP and maybe SSH and SFTP?.
Eclipse natively supports FTP and SSH. Aptana is not necessary.
Native FTP and SSH support in Eclipse is in the "Remote System Explorer End-User Runtime" Plugin.
Install it through Eclipse itself. These instructions may vary slightly with your version of Eclipse:
Go to 'Help' -> 'Install New Software' (in older Eclipses, this is called something a bit different)
In the 'Work with:' drop-down, select your version's plugin release site. Example: for Kepler, this is Kepler - http://download.eclipse.org/releases/kepler
In the filter field, type 'remote'.
Check the box next to 'Remote System Explorer End-User Runtime'
Click 'Next', and accept the terms. It should now download and install.
After install, Eclipse may want to restart.
Using it, in Eclipse:
Window -> Open Perspective -> (perhaps select 'Other') -> Remote System Explorer
File -> New -> Other -> Remote System Explorer (folder) -> Connection (or type Connection into the filter field)
Choose FTP from the 'Select Remote System Type' panel.
Fill in your FTP host info in the next panel (username and password come later).
In the Remote Systems panel, right-click the hostname and click 'connect'.
Enter username + password and you're good!
Well, not exactly 'good'. The RSE system is fairly unusual, but you're connected.
And you're one smart cookie! You'll figure out the rest.
Edit: To change the default port, follow the instructions on this page: http://ikool.wordpress.com/2008/07/25/tips-to-access-ftpssh-on-different-ports-using-eclipse-rse/
Install Aptana plugin to your Eclipse installation.
It has built-in FTP support, and it works excellently.
You can:
Edit files directly from the FTP server
Perform file/folder management (copy, delete, move, rename, etc.)
Upload/download files to/from FTP server
Synchronize local files with FTP server. You can make several profiles (actually projects) for this so you won't have to reinput over and over again.
As a matter of fact the FTP support is so good I'm using Aptana (or Eclipse + Aptana) now for all my FTP needs. Plus I get syntax highlighting/whatever coding support there is. Granted, Eclipse is not the speediest app to launch, but it doesn't bug me so much.
have you checked RSE (Remote System Explorer) ? I think it's pretty close to what you want to achieve.
a blog post about it, with screenshots
I'm not sure if this works for you, but when I do small solo PHP projects with Eclipse, the first thing I set up is an Ant script for deploying the project to a remote testing environment. I code away locally, and whenever I want to test it, I just hit the shortcut which updates the remote site.
Eclipse has good Ant support out of the box, and the scripts aren't hard to make.
SFTP Plug-in:
http://www.jcraft.com/eclipse-sftp/
:)
As none of the other solutions mentioned satisfied me, I wrote a script that uses WinSCP to sync local directories in a project to a FTP(S)/SFTP/SCP Server when eclipse's autobuild feature is triggered. Obviously, this is a Windows-only solution.
Maybe someone finds this useful:
http://rays-blog.de/2012/05/05/94/use-winscp-to-upload-files-using-eclipses-autobuild-feature/