Eclipse and SFTP without problems

For a long time, Aptana and Eclipse had a problem that caused a lot of trouble, namely the impossibility of normal operation with a remote machine that ssh has access to. Aptana has full sftp support only in the pro version, and the officially not supported sftp plugin has a lot of problems (the most significant - when the network crashes and raises the plug-in continues to work as if nothing had happened, but does not save files) not updated for at least a year.

Fortunately, the solution exists and the name of it is Remote System Explorer . RSE not only solves the problem of remote file access, but also provides a remote terminal, file search and even remote debugging.

Installation is trivial, in Update Manager, find “Remote System Explorer End-User Runtime” and install. Additional repositories do not need to be connected. After installation, a new category “Remote Systems” appears in the Views list in which the most interesting is the “Remote Systems” View, which lists existing connections and allows you to add new ones.

PS Do not forget that now you can make a project from any remote folder using the “Create Remote Project” item of the context menu. (This is for those who will search for root path settings in the connection properties)