[TYPO3-ect] Eclipse Plugin Development

[Johnny Peck]

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