Progress Report: Esftp 1.1.1

Progress on the new Esftp 1.1.1 release is coming along very nicely, the new features that are now fully working in the prototype I have in front of me are a proper site browser, for browsing the remote site, you can see the files and folders, select a site root without having to remember it from your head.

The benefit of the implementation is that it's trivial to implement this as a ViewPart for using as a normal eclipse view, so you can see this is going to be the face of esftp 1.1.2, where you can browse the remote location and perform actions upon selected files (such as delete, rename, move, copy, etc)

The new preferences system is working and it's a hell of a lot better than the old one it uses the ProjectScope, InstanceScope, DefaultScope method of storing and obtaining preferences, which now means that esftp projects can inherit preferences from the workspace in the way that I had imagined it at the start of the project, this has never worked properly and I never had a suitable fix for it. But now, it works and it's a lot easier to understand and debug.

The FTP code is in there too, you can use it for browsing the remote location, but I've found some problems with transferring files, also the cancel button on the file transfer progress window doesnt work either, so I am going to have to fix that before I can let this go.

But at the end of this, I can say that if you liked the previous esftp, you'll love this one, it's got pretty much all the features that everyone has asked for.

If you want a feature not mentioned here, or want to request a feature, you can visit the forums and post a request.

Back to the coding!