[TYPO3-ect] Eclipse Plugin Development

[Andreas Tschirpke]

Hello Johnny, Hello ECT,

quite some time has passed and I'm sorry I didn't answer earlier. But in 
the meantime I worked on the development of an Eclipse PlugIn which 
communicates with a server over WebServices to implement a remote file 
system. Currently it is in first "usable" state - although highly 
unstable and lacks quite some features. But you can get a first glimpse 
of the actual idea.

I created a server-side implementation which allows remote file access 
and access to the TYPO3 page-tree. For more details, documentation and 
download please visit:

https://ssl.tschirpke.org/wsefs/trac

Please note that the current state focuses on the file transfer and file 
system concept. The TYPO3 server implementation is a proof-of-concept.

If the project gets some, hopefully positive, feedback I will enhance 
the existing plugin and create further plugins to implement TYPO3 
specific funtions.

Have a great day!

Andreas

Johnny Peck schrieb:
> Hello ECT,
> 
> This past April Andreas Tschirpke wrote on this list about the 
> possibility of focusing his thesis on an Eclipse TYPO3 plugin and quite 
> a few nice feature ideas.  I did not find any more information aside 
> from that thread in either this list or the dev list regarding his work.
> 
> Has anyone any information about the state of this project or whether it 
> is even in the works?  If it is no longer in the works I think it may be 
> time to introduce the discussion again and see what we can accomplish. I 
> have used the jedit tool as well but find it unsuitable for my 
> requirements.  As far as I know there are quite a few people on the 
> lists using Eclipse but not much discussion on its actual use, plugin 
> development, or best practices regarding TYPO3.  Eclipse is an amazing 
> platform with a lot of heavy weight behind it with Sun, IBM, and the 
> massive commitment by the communities surrounding it.  Perhaps, with 
> quite a bit of effort of course, we could really push TYPO3s reach to 
> developers with the creation of the features discussed by Andreas and 
> others in the original thread.
> 
> I use Eclipse for all development now and finally came around to setting 
> Dreamweaver aside as well in favor of Eclipse although FTP support is 
> still a bit awkward for me.  I hope to do the same by moving to OSS 
> Flash[1] tools as well when I finally get a moment.
> 
> Anyhow, what is the status of the proposed project from Andreas?  What 
> tools do you use with Eclipse for T3 development?  Is there still 
> interest in this amongst the list goers?
> 
> Aloha
> 
> Johnny
> 
> [1] http://osflash.org