Hi Mirko, The update site URL is to be put into Eclipse's install new software / update site dialogs. There are files underneath there that Eclipse knows relative location of.
I have removed the blank page, so you can see the contents too. Hope that helps. Regards, Srimanth On Mon, Jun 17, 2013 at 12:09 PM, Mirko Kämpf <[email protected]> wrote: > 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
