In any large scale IT service companies; there are different needs for configuring IDEs to serve different kind of application development projects. So managing a large amount of Eclipse workplaces within organization to cater different set of requirements is becoming more challenging when one has to validate the plug-ins available to suite their specific needs.
• Challenge 1: Normally developers tend to download Eclipse and configure rather would say search for plug-ins, try out with many available plug-ins and finally nail down to the best available one found in the market. Thus setting up their baseline eclipse package version with all necessary plug-ins installed involves significant efforts in searching and validating the plug-ins
• Challenge 2: Certain organization does provide a common Eclipse IDE with pre-installed plug-ins servicing multiple project requirement needs. But the problem here is to have a dedicated team validating those plug-ins, maintaining the package with latest plug-in versions and update informations during the next organization wide release
Ever wondered on how tedious is to manage these Eclipse workplaces considering the various choices available to search among the best plug-ins in market catering various application development needs?
Just to make the developers life at ease, to allow them concentrate more on their day-to-day activities, and empowering the next phase of growth to open source communities, there are channels by means of which one can easily manage workplaces.
Yoxos: Eclipse On Demand, a free pre-existing channel created by a German based company called Innoopract provides such distribution service for the Eclipse community offering information, downloads and updates for a variety of Eclipse plug-ins over the web with their dependencies.
• It allows to download the standard Eclipse platform or to choose from pre-configured Eclipse packages. For more details, visit http://www.yoxos.com/ondemand
• More importantly, It allows to create custom Eclipse package where you can choose your favorite plug-in based on user ratings who has tried it before using their simple plug-in explorer view. For more details, visit http://ondemand.yoxos.com/geteclipse/start