Hello Srimnath, I think this sound great. I would realy like to see your project merged in to the HDT project.
I just tried to install the plugins but the update site : http://people.apache.org/~srimanth/hadoop-eclipse/update-site is empty? Do you have another URL for a first test? Thanks and best wishes Mirko 2013/6/17 Srimanth Gunturi <[email protected]>: > Hello, > My name is Srimanth, and am the creator of the Hadoop-Eclipse project > (http://people.apache.org/~srimanth/hadoop-eclipse/) released under > the Apache License. > The project currently provides a HDFS Explorer written on top of > Eclipse File System (EFS), and a ZooKeeper Explorer. > > During the creation of my project, I was unaware of the parallel > creation of the Hadoop Development Tools Incubator project in Apache. > I started the project to address some of the deficiencies found in the > Eclipse functionality provided in Hadoop at that point. > One of them being that the HDFS/MR clients were compiled directly into > the plugins - which meant that only one version of the Eclipse plugin > could be active at any one point. Basically it was not allowing a > client to connect to multiple versions of Hadoop servers. > Another was the HDFS functionality provided. Eclipse provides rich > file system interaction which was not being utilized. For example, > right-clicking on a HDFS file/folder was not showing the regular > actions one would find (like new folder file/folder actions). > > In Hadoop-Eclipse project I rewrote the HDFS functionality on top of > EFS so that we get for free all the rich functionality that Eclipse > provides, like actions, drag&drop, Team synchronizations, permissions, > etc. You can also access HDFS just like any Eclipse project - write > scripts, etc. This is like basic functionality which can be easily > expanded upon. It is important to note here that supporting new > versions of HDFS is as easy as creating a fragment-plugin and > extending 1 base class. > I have also implemented a ZooKeeper client which provides basic client > functionality. This helps in keeping an abstract service oriented view > in underlying internals. > > If the community is interested, I would like join the group as a > contributor and contribute my code to the HDT project. I would like to > join our efforts to provide better tools in the Hadoop environment. > Please let me know of any questions you have regarding functionality, > code base, etc. > Best regards, > Srimanth
