This page will help familiarize you with Eclipse FTP and WebDAV support, which are part of the Eclipse Target Management Tech preview. To get started, read the sections below.
Target Management is a lightweight facility provided by Eclipse for deploying a project in the workspace to a remote location. One typical use case would be in web development, to deploy a project (containing web pages and images) to the web server. Target Management provides the Target Site... menu item in the Team menu that allows projects to be deployed to a Target site. It also provides a Site Explorer view that supports the browsing of remote sites and the importing of a remote directory structure into the workspace as a project. Currently, Target Management has support for two protocols: FTP and WebDAV.
Eclipse provides an FTP client that allows the user to deploy a project to an FTP server. This feature is in the early beta stage.
Eclipse provides a WebDAV client that allows the user to deploy a project to an HTTP server that supports WebDAV.