ESftp plugin for Eclipse

Chris, the developer of ESftp , recently updated his Eclipse plugin to version 1.1.0, which fixes a lot of problems introduced with the 1.0.9 release.

This version, gives the ability to login using KeyboardAuthentication modes for SFTP servers, so if you were having to modify your ssh_config to login, this has just fixed your problem, also it might fix some other problems which people had with their SFTP servers that they never attributed to this problem.

He is now working on ESftp 1.1.1 which will have the following features:

It has a remote site browser, so you can browse the remote site and pick your site root without having to remember it off the top of your head. In esftp 1.1.2, A View will be put together which will incorporate the same site browser, but like dreamweaver, will let you manipulate remote files from your project, which is something that has been in high demand.

It supports FTP, plain FTP at the moment, although there are plans to allow FTP TLS and FTP SSL in esftp 1.1.2, or maybe 1.1.3 depending on demand.

The preferences system has been totally rewritten and is now doing it’s job properly, you can restore defaults and have it work predictably. You can define workspace preferences and have those automagically import into all projects if they are not overridden by specific project properties.

Also, esftp and esftp-lib have been merged back together, simplifying the installation process.

The one thing which is on his list of things to do is to allow setting the chmod status of the files which are uploaded, someone requested that they would like to set them to some default that they know would work, however this is on the list of things for esftp 1.1.2, it might not actually be possible with the ftp library that it is currently using (ftp4che), if anyone knows a better LGPL or GPL library apart from apache-commons, drop him an email.

You can contact Chris by email at: chris dot alex dot thomas at gmail dot com