Redirect classes to a remote location in eclipse

Question

I am using eclipse 3.2 in windows environment. I have deployed the webserver in Solaris environment. I want to redirect the class files to the WEB-INF/ folder of the web server in Solaris. I tried using the RSE plug-in of the eclipse. I could see and access the files using the remote explorer but could not transer / redirect the class files from the package explorer to the webserver location. Is there any way to achieve this?

Answer 1

If you can mount the remote directory as a local drive (which I'm not sure you can do), you can use the FileSync plugin and set it up so that the files are copied from your /bin to the remote dir.

Another option is to use the commercial MyEclipse. Actually, WTP might have an option for remote deployment, of which I'm unaware.

But I would advice against such a thing, if the target server is something more than a development server. Better use a Continuous Integration engine (Hudson), together with maven/ant.