| Advice for SFTP deployment / synchronization [message #214247] |
Thu, 07 June 2007 08:45 |
 Jean-Noel Rivasseau
Messages: 12
Registered: July 2009 |
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Hello,
I am looking for a plugin or feature that would help me achieve the
following (simple) problems in Eclipse.
We are a small teams of programmers using Eclipse to code a web
application in PHP. Our basic workflow is the following:
* Programmer A works on a feature / fixes bugs, editing files on his own
local environment;
* When he has finished, he needs to upload his changes to our (common)
Apache web server to test;
* He then goes back to the editing cycle, and he loops through
editing/uploading to server/testing until the implementation is complete;
* Then he commits its changes to our source control system, Subversion.
* Other programmers in the team do the same and occasionally update their
code through SVN.
Currently, the problem happens in phase 2, when uploading changes to the
web server. Subversion support in Eclipse is perfect through Subclipse.
However, I have not found a satisfactory solution that would allow me to
synchronize files with the web server via SFTP. Currently I am manually
uploading the files with an SFTP client, which is a very unsatisfactory
solution!
I've currently tried the following solutions (plugins):
* Aptana plugin. This allows you to edit files directly on the test server
via SFTP. This is not what is needed, because the test server contents can
be modified by any programmer at any time and is not considered a safe
place, your changes can be overriden at any time. Besides, the updated
files on the server would have to be downloaded back into the local
environment to be commited to SVN.
Aptana also has a synchronization feature which is useful and works well,
but is not possible in our case since it works by brute force: it scans
the entire contents of the server and is thus very slow (only usable daily
or so). We need something smarter, eg, once the initial syncrhonization is
done it remembers the files locally modified and will only synchronize
these ones.
* Target Management/ Remote System Explorer: As far as I understood this
plugin does not allow synchronization at all. It only allows you to edit
files directly on the server like Aptana.
* FTP / WebDAV support plugin (with Jcraft additional SFTP support): this
plugin seems old / unmaintained but this is currently the one that seems
the best. It allows you to synchronize (via the general team sync
framework) and remember local changes thereafter. However it lacks two
critical things to be really usable:
- possibility to exclude certain files from the synchronization (it works
with file patterns though, like *.svn, but not individual files which is
important)
- possibility to synchronize one project with different servers
(strangely, one project can be only associated with one deployment !!...)
If anybody can help me or point me to relevant plugins, I'd be really
grateful. This problem is hindering our development process in a really
bad way. For the information I am running Eclipse 3.2.2 under Linux. I
intend to upgrade to 3.3 as soon as I can, and will install/try any plugin
that will help me resolve my problem (only open source plugins though).
Jean-Noel
ps: I've looked a little bit onto the WTP features, but this really seems
targeted at JEE development, and we are doing PHP dev. For example on the
servers definition there are only servlet containers (Tomcat, Websphere
etc), so I am not sure if this can help me at all
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