You may want to look at tramp for this. Tramp extends EFS to allow other
communication protocols.
http://ls6-www.informatik.uni-dortmund.de/~grossjoh/emacs/tramp.html
Be patient with teh site, I've found that sometimes it's down.
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Maxime Levesque [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
>Sent: Wednesday, September 06, 2000 2:58 PM
>To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]'
>Subject: Suggestions for integrating EFS with JDE
>
>
>
> I'm about to try to integrate EFS with JDE. EFS is an emacs package
>that let's you transparantly use remote (ftp reachable) file
>systems for
>editing just as if they were local.
>
> Integrating it with JDE would mean that compilation and execution
>would happen on the machine where the files reside, I plan to use
>some emacs telnet package for this.
>
> ideally one would just need to set a few parameters like :
>
>'(remote-site
> '(host-name "hostName")
> '(project-root-dir "remote roor dir")
> '(remote-jdk-home "remote jdk home")
> '(remote-classpath "the remote classpath")
> '(remote-login ...)
> '(remote-password ...))
>
> and then be ready to edit and compile the remote site...
>
> Any help or suggestions would be appreciated ...
>
>
> In particular : what telnet (or ssh?) package should I use for this ?
>