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I am migrating from a Dreamweaver forced working environment to a free-of-choice one. That said I must say I was rather enthusiastic about being able to use Dreamweaver PDT. However I have come to rely very heavily on the use of the "auto upload on save" function.

I am developing LAMP but oriented to a Windows base majority so I really must run Windows native and test heavy for IE, all projects work smooth on FF and Safari, IE's really the bottleneck. On the other hand I like to have my project served by a clone of the server so I have a Virtual machine on windows running Linux that works as my Dev Server.

As you can tell the auto-update on save works like a charm.

I've dug up some of the documentation and I've also Google quite a bit and found nothing (besides Aptana) to suit my needs. I am looking in the wrong direction or isn't there really something like this for Eclipse?

Thank you in advance!

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You can either create the ftp connection through windows explorer or mount the ftp location as a drive and then just access it through eclipse as you normally would. That's what I've done in the past work well enough.

zodeus
Thanks for the reply zodeus! That indeed can be a solution. Even though I must confess I'd love to have the exact same feature Dreamwever has implemented on Eclipse PDT.
Frankie
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After some months of using different set ups I've come to use a combination that's perfect for my needs and though I should share.

Eclipse running Aptana as plug-in.

All the power of Eclipse and all the usability of Dreamweaver plus some nice Aptana goodies. That said, after installing Aptana as a plug-in just create a new file under the /scripts directory (or put that file into a project you'll never close) and the following code inside:

/* 
 * Menu: gMan > Upload On Save 
 * Kudos: Ingo Muschenetz 
 * License: EPL 1.0 
 * Listener: commandService().addExecutionListener(this); 
 * DOM: http://localhost/com.aptana.ide.syncing.doms
 * DOM: http://download.eclipse.org/technology/dash/update/org.eclipse.eclipsemonkey.lang.javascript 
 */  

function commandService() 
{ 
   var commandServiceClass = Packages.org.eclipse.ui.commands.ICommandService; 
   var commandService = Packages.org.eclipse.ui.PlatformUI.getWorkbench().getAdapter(commandServiceClass);
   return commandService; 
} 

function preExecute(commandId, event) {}

function postExecuteSuccess(commandId, returnValue) 
{ 
   if (commandId == "org.eclipse.ui.file.save") 
   { 
       sync.uploadCurrentEditor(); 
   } 
}

function notHandled(commandId, exception) {} 

function postExecuteFailure(commandId, exception) {}

So, if the project your working on has a syncronize connection active on each and every save you'll have the file uploaded to the server.

Hope it saves you some time!

Frankie
A: 

I dont find a script dir, can i create it straight under the Eclipse root folder? Is it neccessary to give the file a certain extension? Thanks in advance!

Michael
@Michael, this is not an answers. Please delete this post and ask the question as a comment to my answer. *(or put that file into a project you'll never close)*
Frankie